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Herbert Read

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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.


— Herbert Read


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To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.


— Herbert Read


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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 of the Roman civilization.


— Herbert Read


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What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.


— Herbert Read


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This work both changed fundamentally his own life’s work throughout his remaining twenty-five years and provided art education with a rationale of unprecedented lucidity and persuasiveness. Read perhaps was the closest England came to an existentialist theorist of the European tradition. ) Herbert Read Reassessed (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1998)
King James The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1990)
Paraskos Michael (ed.

Sir Herbert Edward Read DSO MC (1893–1968) was an English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art.

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