"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
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"Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.“
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is already clear, after twenty years of socialism in Russia, that if you do not provide your society with a new religion, it will gradually revert to the old one."
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"What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos."
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"I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration."
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