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Herbert Read Art critic

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: Dec 4, 1893
  • Died: Jun 12, 1968

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC was an English anarchist, poet and literary critic, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. 3 quotes from John Millington Synge

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Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. 28 other quotes from William Butler Yeats

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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. 27 quotes from Dave Barry

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 other quotes from Winston Churchill

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