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From Quotes by Herbert Read
- Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to…
- In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is…
- But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division,…
- If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist…
- The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.
- 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…
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