Quotes By Herbert Read

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.

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.

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

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

I know of no better name than Anarchism.

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.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

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.

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

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