Logo
Quote by Herbert Read
The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic bei

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

Other quotes by Herbert Read

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. – Herbert Read

Category:
power
Author
Herbert Read
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Author
Herbert Read
Read Quote

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

Category:
Society
Author
Herbert Read
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Intelligence
category

Im much better informed than Mr. Clarke ever was about the nature of the intelligence that was available again Osama bin Laden and which was consistently denigrated by himself and Mr. Tenet. – Michael Scheuer

Category:
Intelligence

The higher the general average of intelligence, all things else being equal, the less the disposition to be meddlesome, critical, and overbearing. – Paul Harris

Category:
Intelligence

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence. – Edgar Allan Poe

Category:
Intelligence

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. – Bryant H. McGill

Category:
Intelligence

Random Quotes

I really believe that we dont have to make a trade-off between security and privacy. I think technology gives us the ability to have both. – John Poindexter

Category:
Technology

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebodys good old days. – Gerald Barzan

Category:
Past, the

But Im never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing thats gonna stop me. – Abel Ferrara

Category:
Imagination

The essence of humanitys spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? – E. O. Wilson

Category:
Truth