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One Quotes by Herbert Read
- Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.
- The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
- There are a few people, but a diminishing number, who still believe that Marxism, as an economic system, off era a coherent alternative to capitalism,…
- Art is not and never has been subordinate to moral values. Moral values are social values; aesthetic values are human values. Morality seeks to restrain…
- Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this…
- It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will…
- 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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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster