42 Quotes About Humanities

Might not too much investment in teaching Shelley mean falling behind our economic competitors? But there is no university without humane inquiry, which means that universities and advanced capitalism are fundamentally incompatible. And the political implications of that run far deeper than the question of student fees.

One can work with exactitude only where it is possible to capture the flow of phenomena in fixed forms. Mechanics, for instance, provides physics with such fixed forms. The humanities are still without this foundation; it can only be sought in psychology.

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

In grammar, as in war, there is strength in numbers.

There is a Revolution, it’s a human and technological revolution

Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities." - Alfred L. Kroeber

Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses all conceivable real worlds, the humanities encompass all three of these levels and one more, the infinity of all fantasy worlds.

However they arrive, asylum seekers, immigrants, and refugees reach with outstretched hands toward safer, more promising shores. Welcoming these wayfarers rekindles our humanity and heals our broken parts. Only within the cords that bind us together do we find answers to age-old questions about despair and enmity, fear and alienation, justice and hope.

A different voice may be particularly effective in disturbing the existing participants into re-examining matters they had come to take for granted.