Herbert Read Quotes

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of...

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values -...

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or milita...

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

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of ...

The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.

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

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an orga...

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

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...

It does not seem that the contradiction which exists between the aristocratic function of art and th...

In History, stagnant waters, whether they be stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbou...