J. C. Read Quotes

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

The principle of equity first came into evidence in Roman jurisprudence and was derived by analogy from the physical meaning of the word.

I am not going to claim that modern anarchism has any direct relation to Roman jurisprudence; but I do claim that it has its basis in the laws of nature rather than in the state of nature.

A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.

To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

I suggest that the best geologist is he who has seen most rocks.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Love works miracles in stillness.

You cannot move on to a new phase in life if you bring your old baggage with you, let the bad go, and move onto the new.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

Truth is always duller than fiction.

The work of art... is an instrument for tilling the human psyche, that it may continue to yield a harvest of vital beauty.

In market terms, one is entitled to what others will offer in willing exchange. That is all!

Spontaneity is not enough - or, to be more exact, spontaneity is not possible until there is an unconscious coordination of form, space and vision.

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Studies show that aggressively expressing anger doesn't relieve anger but amplifies it. On the other hand, not expressing anger often allows it to disappear without leaving ugly traces.

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense.

There is no moral distinction between the act of a pickpocket and the progressive income tax.

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

Art is an indecent exposure of the consciousness.

Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

The American people are becoming more and more afraid of, and are running away from, their own revolution.

Revolt, it will be said, implies violence; but this is an outmoded, an incompetent conception of revolt. The most effective form of revolt in this violent world we live in is non-violence.

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently.

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

There is no moral distinction between petty thievery and 'from each according to ability, to each according to need.'

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

There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.

Statism, which forces all of us within its orbit, is nothing but a political system of organized plunder, managed by every conceivable type of pressure group.

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

There could be no greater error than to conclude that statism caused prosperity.