Herbert Read - Individual Quotes

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It 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.

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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.

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The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

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If the individual is a unit in a corporate mass, his life is not merely brutish and short, but dull and mechanical.

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

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But the further step, by means of which a civilization is given its quality or culture, is only attained by a process of cellular division, in the course of which the individual is differentiated, made distinct from and independent of the parent group.

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