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Individual Quotes by Herbert Read
- 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,…
- Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour,…
- 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…
- 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…
- If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
- The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
- 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 point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of…
- 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…
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