Herbert Read Quotes
- It was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples…
- Man is everywhere still in chains. Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.