Only a people serving an apprenticeship to nature can be trusted with machines. Only such people will so contrive and control those machines that their products are an enhancement of biological needs, and not a denial of them.
Herbert ReadYou 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 ReadSentir mon Cœur is a privilege only granted to the exceptional man - the one who has the ability to find words that exactly (or, to himself, convincingly) express his feelings... The value of words help to define the feeling itself... The common failure is to allow habitual words and phrases, flowing spontaneously from the memory, to determine and deform the feelings.
Herbert ReadCreeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.
Herbert Read