If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.
Herbert ReadIn the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
Herbert ReadIt was Nietzsche who first made us conscious of the significance of the individual as a term in the evolutionary process-in that part of the evolutionary process which has still to take place.
Herbert ReadIt will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din.
Herbert ReadSentir mon Cลur 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 Read