Herbert Read Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Herbert Read quotes and sayings page 3 (poet). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 40 we have.
“I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.”
“I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.”
“If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.”
“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.”
“The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.”
“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.”
“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.”
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