#humanities

I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

#beings #better #conduct #help #human

Natural People, Different Edges ↗

— Daniel

#art

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #creative-people #creative-process

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #arts-and-humanities #be-yourself #creative-people #creative-process

Good work, like good talk or any other form of worthwhile human relationship, depends upon being able to assume an extended shared world. ↗

— Stefan Collini

#education-system #humanities #education

The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that, by virtue of their very mission, validate economic efficiency and productivity above all else also sanction apathy toward the humanities. (p. 97) ↗

— Frank Donoghue

#humanities #education

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

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn

What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history. ↗

— Barney Frank

#american #american history #because #could #encouragement

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#between #deep #false #gulf #humanities