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The hearts letter is read in the eyes. — George Herbert

Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs. — Herbert Read

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

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things. — Herbert Read

Man is everywhere still in chains. — Herbert Read

It may be that it is only by the grace of granitization that we have continents to live on. — Herbert Harold Read

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks. — Herbert Harold Read

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

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness. — Herbert Read

The dice cannot read their own spots. — Frank Herbert

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

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one. — Herbert Bayard Swope

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. — Herbert Read

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read

... one doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions. — Frank Herbert

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish ... — Herbert Read

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

Love works miracles in stillness. — Herbert Read

Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer

I know of no better name than Anarchism. — Herbert Read

Nobody seriously believes in the social philosophies of the immediate past. — Herbert Read

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol. — Herbert Read

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. — Herbert Read

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them. — Herbert Read

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration. — 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. — Herbert Read

Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'. — Herbert Read

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children. — Herbert Read

I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed. — David Herbert Donald

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected. — Herbert Read

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

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

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

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

In general, modern art ... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted. — Herbert Read

The work of art ... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty. — Herbert Read

These are the sensations and feelings that are gradually blunted by education, staled by custom, rejected in favor of social conformity. — Herbert Read

Art is pattern informed by sensibility. — Herbert Read

Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer

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

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life. — George Herbert

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact. — Herbert Read

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision. — Herbert Read

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

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

Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians. — Herbert Simon

It is not my purpose as a poet to condemn war (or to be exact, modern warfare). I only wish to present the universal aspects of a particular event — Herbert Read

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past. — Herbert Read

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

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind. — Herbert Read