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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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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. - Herbert Read
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Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. - Herbert Read
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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
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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
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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. - 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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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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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
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The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised. - Herbert Read
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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. - Herbert Read
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The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves. - Herbert Read
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The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word. - Herbert Read
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The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. - Herbert Read
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The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair. - Herbert Read
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The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. - Herbert Read
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Man is everywhere still in chains. - Herbert Read
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The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. - Herbert Read
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Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society. - 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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The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency. - Herbert Read
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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. - 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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Art is pattern informed by sensibility. - Herbert Read
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