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Man Quotes by Herbert Read
- 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…
- It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.
- Man is everywhere still in chains.
- Modern man has been in search of a new language of form to satisfy new longings and aspirations - longings for mental appeasement, aspirations to…
- 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…
- A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
- 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.
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