Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the … - Herbert Read

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Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow.

Herbert Read

Freud has shown one thing very clearly: that we only forget our infancy by burying it in the unconscious; and that the problems of this difficult period find their solution under a disguised form in adult life.

Adults, Burying, Forget, Problem, Problems, Unconscious

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Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.

Artist, Feelings, Stronger, Make, Become, Formless

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Art, Modern, Produced, Symbols

To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.

Equality, Literature, World, Power, Technical

The depths modern art has been exploring are mysterious depths, full of strange fish.

Art, Depth, Strange, Full, Mysterious

What I do deny is that you can build any enduring society without some such mystical ethos.

Build, Deny, Ethos, Literature

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Of publishing a book on religion, my dear sir, I never had an idea. I should as soon think of writing for the reformation of Bedlam, as of the world of religious sects. Of these there must be, at least, ten thousand, every individual of every one of which believes all wrong but his own.

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Jazz demands that you bring to it things that are valuable to you, that are personal to you.

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. . . it is not a crisis of our environs or surroundings; it is a crisis of our lives as individuals, as family members, as community members, and as citizens. We have an 'environmental crisis' because we have consented to an economy in which by eating, drinking, working, resting, traveling, and enjoying ourselves we are destroying the natural, god-given world.

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God's place is the world but the world is not God's place.

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