Herbert Read

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. ↗

— Herbert Read

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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. ↗

— Herbert Read

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical. ↗

— Herbert Read

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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. ↗

— Herbert Read

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It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and the democratic structure of modern society can ever be resolved. ↗

— Herbert Read

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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 gradually revert to the old one. ↗

— Herbert Read

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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 evolutionary process which has still to take place. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Man is everywhere still in chains. ↗

— Herbert Read

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