Sir Herbert Edward Read Quotes

• The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

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• The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

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• The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.

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• The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

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• That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man’s spiritual vision.

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• The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

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• The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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• The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

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• Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

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• The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

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• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals – its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

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• To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values – above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

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• The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

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• The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

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• There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country.

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• These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

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• The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

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• We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

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• What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

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• You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true.

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Sir Herbert Edward Read (40)

Birth:	4th December, 1893
Death:	12th June, 1968
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Critic, Poet

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