Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
“Magic is not, and never has been a substitute for science, but is rather a constructive activity with a specific social function,… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
