Definition of Humanities

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Definition of Humanities
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Humanities Quotations

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia

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

I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.
Joshua Lederberg

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.
Sue Grafton

The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.
Joseph E. Stiglitz

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

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.
Jon Secada

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker

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

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
David McCullough

Humanities Translations

humanities in German is Altphilologie {f}

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