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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 (Herbert Read Quotes)
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them (Herbert Read Quotes)
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos (Herbert Read Quotes)
The great modern heresy in poetry is to confuse the use we make of words in a poem with modalities of speech... For true poetry is never speech but always a song (Herbert Read Quotes)
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group (Herbert Read Quotes)
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 (Herbert Read Quotes)
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 (Herbert Read Quotes)
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority (Herbert Read Quotes)
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals (Herbert Read Quotes)
The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists (Herbert Read Quotes)
Poetry is a mental activity in which there is no time interval between the words and the thought... And it mat inhere in a single word or phrase (Herbert Read Quotes)
Poetry is creative expression.. By creative I mean original... Which raises the question how are we to recognize originality when we see it... It is an instinctive matter (Herbert Read Quotes)
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 Quotes)
It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din (Herbert Read Quotes)
If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical (Herbert Read Quotes)
Sensibility... is a direct and particular reaction to the separate and individual nature of things. It begins and ends with the sensuous apprehension of colour, texture and formal relations; and if we strive to organize these elements, it is not with the idea of increasing the knowledge of the mind, but rather in order to intensify the pleasure of the senses (Herbert Read Quotes)
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact (Herbert Read Quotes)
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of knowledge properly called science? But admittedly we also know by feeling, and we can combine the two faculties, and present knowledge in the guise of art (Herbert Read Quotes)
If we persist in our restless desire to know everything about the universe and ourselves, then we must not be afraid of what the artist brings back from his voyage of discovery (Herbert Read Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs (Herbert Read Quotes)
Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them (Herbert Read Quotes)
Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things (Herbert Read Quotes)
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children (Herbert Read Quotes)
You might think that it would he the natural desire of every man to develop as an independent personality, but this does not seem to be true (Herbert Read Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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