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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

#evolutionary #first #individual #made #nietzsche

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. ↗

— Herbert Read

#immediate #nobody #past #philosophies #seriously

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 vision. ↗

— Herbert Read

#believe #direct #economics #either #i

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

#analogous #appetites #assumption #being #digestions

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. ↗

— Herbert Read

#belief #characteristic #despair #political #positive

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, and socialism has, indeed, triumphed in one country. ↗

— Herbert Read

#believe #capitalism #coherent #country #diminishing

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away. ↗

— Michael Reagan

#being #biological #different #giving #me

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work. ↗

— Marion Ross

#contract #ended #film #film work #go

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

#christianity #civilization #emerge #emerged #just

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. ↗

— Charles Reade

#character #destiny #habit #reap #sow