Herbert Read Quotes
Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art.
(1893 - 1968)
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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
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Art is pattern informed by sensibility.
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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.
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Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
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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 difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.
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I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.
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I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.
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I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.
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I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.
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I know of no better name than Anarchism.
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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.
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In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man is everywhere still in chains.
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.
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My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
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Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.
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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
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