Quotes About Humanities

This is what I think so many of us who work in the arts and the humanities hope to receive from our universities, from our government, from sometimes skeptical students and their parents: patience and faith in us as we test the limits of our ignorance, as we pursue what may very well be useless, as we go in search of that mystery and intuition that exist within all of us.

What is valuable about my worlds of the arts and humanities is that they create spaces for this type of slow thinking. And by this I mean that we value the arts and humanities not simply for the material possibilities and rewards they may bring, like a Pulitzer Prize. Rather, we should value the arts and humanities for their privileging of the mystery and intuition that makes moments of revelation and innovation possible.

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.

America is very decentralized in how it supports the humanities, unlike European countries where virtually everything stems from the central government.

What I really resent is that my graduates are not more different from his. For all my emphasis on the humanities and his on God, we both turn out stockbrokers!

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

a culture committed to bleeding the humanities to death, along with any other labors of love that don't serve the god of capital: the spectacle of someone who likes her pointless, pervers work and gets paid - even paid well - for it.

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

educated in the 'liberal arts' (literally 'the intellectual pursuits suited to the free')

Humanistisen alan yliopisto-opinnot eivät tunnetusti johda mihinkään, paitsi lahjakkaimmilla opiskelijoilla humanistisen alan yliopistonopettajan uralle. Meillä on toisin sanoen hassunkurinen järjestelmä, jonka ainoa tavoite on omaneuvoinen lisääntyminen ja jossa jätteen osuus on yli yhdeksänkymmentäviisi prosenttia.

los saberes humanísticos, la cultura y la enseñanza constituyen el líquido amniótico ideal en el que las ideas de democracia, libertad, justicia, laicidad, igualdad, derecho a la crítica, tolerancia, solidaridad, bien común, pueden experimentar un vigoroso desarrollo.