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 t...oday from the humanities as well as from the scientists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach h...im to be civil and sweet-tempered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had my good looks, my blond hair, my height, build, and bullfighting school, I suppose I became one of the Village equivalents o...f an Eagle Scout badge for the girls. I was one of the credits needed for a diploma in the sexual humanities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and aff...ronted with balderdash daily and hourly by chalky pedagogues, I was at large in a wicked seaport of half a million people, with a front seat at every public show, as free of the night as of day, and getting earfuls of instruction in a hundred giddy arcana, none of them taught in schools.... [But] if I neglected the humanities, I was meanwhile laying in all the worldly wisdom of a police lieutenant, a bartender, a shyster lawyer, or a midwife.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work..., a fabricated tradition. Overconcentration on any one point is a distortion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with a...ll their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He did not go to the college called Harvard, good old Alma Mater as she is. He was not fed on the pap that is there furnished.... ...But he went to the great university of the West, where he sedulously pursued the study of Liberty, for which he had early betrayed a fondness, and having taken many degrees, he finally commenced the public practice of Humanity in Kansas, as you all know. Such were his humanities, and not any study of grammar. He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... for twenty years ... to speak of culture has meant that one did not have it. The only people who have talked about it have bee...n the people who have thought you could get it at Chautauquas.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a r...econciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »