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Herbert Read
Herbert Read
English Poet
Born: Dec 4, 1893
Died: Jun 12, 1968
Been Man Personality Religion Society You
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. Herbert Read
Character Man Personality Achieve Only Ideals Formulate Them
The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. Herbert Read
Wind Bitter Knows Blowing Artist Sensitive
I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. Herbert Read
Society Embody Arbitration Some Does Method Which Imagine
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
Care Other Our Spirit Only Could Take Take Care Sin Ugliness Left Human Being Themselves Human Spirit Activities Believed
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
Art Society Resolved Seem Structure Aristocratic Between Democratic Does Exists Contradiction Modern Modern Society Which Function Ever
Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. Herbert Read
Seriously Past Philosophies Immediate Nobody Social Believes
Man is everywhere still in chains. Herbert Read
Man Everywhere Still Chains
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
Army Single Society Otherwise Distinguished He Individuals Merely Like Within According Orchestra Common Common Interests Whether Interests Separate Body Groups Function United Defend
The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. Herbert Read
Happiness Be Happy Happy Enough May Slave
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
Quality Culture Worth Wealth Power Military Philosophers Valued Civilization Poets Individuals Terms Material Material Wealth Representative Artists Achievements Military Power
The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group. Herbert Read
Group Society More Individual Clearly Becomes Antithesis Farther
Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. Herbert Read
Past Emotional Intellectual Forms Grouping Belong Creeds
Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals. Herbert Read
Animals Rudimentary Out Morality Pointed Been Exists Often Form Even Among
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. Herbert Read
You Build Society Some Mystical Without Deny Any Enduring Ethos
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. Herbert Read
Religion You Socialism Old Will Society Russia Clear New Provide Years Revert New Religion Gradually After Old One Your Twenty
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. Herbert Read
Religion Natural Supernatural Conceived Call Been Authority

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