The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. – Herbert Read
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read

The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough. – Herbert Read
What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos. – Herbert Read
I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority. – Herbert Read
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success. – Herbert Read
If you asked somebody, what do you wish for in life? they wouldnt say happiness. I would have answered excitement, knowledge, God knows – I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not happiness. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular. – Connie Nielsen