Herbert Read Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

  Herbert Read

  Character, Men, Personality

  Herbert Read (1928). “English Prose Style”

• 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.

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  Civilization, Literature, May

• The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

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  Art, Literature, Modern

  Herbert Read (1971). “The Philosophy of Modern Art: Collected Essays”, Books for Libraries

• 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

  Progress, Literature, Intensity

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

• Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

  Herbert Read

  Animal, Literature, Morality

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• 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

  Principles, Jurisprudence, Analogies

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• 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.

  Herbert Read

  Law, Jurisprudence, Literature

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• I know of no better name than Anarchism.

  Herbert Read

  Names, Literature, Anarchism

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.

  Herbert Read

  Happiness, Literature, May

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

• 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.

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  Military, Artist, Civilization

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

• 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, Groups, Literature

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

  Herbert Read

  Philosophical, Feelings, Historical

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1971). “Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics”

• 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.

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  Equality, Literature, World

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• 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

  Law, Growth, Balance

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

  Herbert Read

  Life, Literature, Dull

• An enormous amount of art and literature is erotic in the sense that it stimulates vague sexual emotions, but it has no pornographic intention or effect because "it leaves everything to the imagination." The consumer has to invent his own images, and it is felt, I do not know with what justification, that there is no harm in this.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Imagination, Erotic

  Herbert Read (2005). “To Hell With Culture”, p.152, Routledge

• Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past.

  Herbert Read

  Philosophy, Believe, Past

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Groups, Literature

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• Progress is measured by the degree of differentiation within a society.

  Herbert Read

  Progress, Degrees, Differentiation

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

• What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

  Herbert Read

  Ethos, Literature, Deny

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• 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

  Eugenics, Russia, Years

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1971). “Anarchy and Order: Essays in Politics”

• Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

  Herbert Read

  Emotional, Past, Intellectual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• 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.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, Firsts, Individual

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

• I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

  Herbert Read

  Literature, Natural, Authority

• 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

  Passion, Literature, Digestion

  Herbert Read (1963). “Selected Writings: Poetry and Criticism”

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