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Letter "H" » humanities
«Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities.»
«Books are humanity in print.»
«If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.'»
Author: Ann Landers
(
Advice columnist)
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About:
Advice,
Humanity,
Life,
Trouble
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Keywords:
advice,
asked,
bigger,
bit,
bite out,
bit by bit,
consider,
defeat,
expect,
eye,
for all,
head,
high,
highs,
high life,
hold,
humanities,
humanity,
inevitable,
In Humanity,
look,
part,
say,
single,
squarely,
The single,
trouble,
useful,
would-be
«It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(
Physicist)
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About:
Civilization,
Humanity,
Progress,
Technology
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Keywords:
appallingly,
become,
exceeded,
has,
humanities,
humanity,
In Humanity,
obvious,
technologies,
technology,
that
«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.»
Author: Camille Paglia
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Keywords:
academe,
American culture,
American Life,
fantasies,
gap,
humanities,
impact,
leftist,
mass media,
professors,
public policy,
The Gap
«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.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(
Novelist)
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Keywords:
called upon,
crypt,
Drew,
humanities,
Left Behind,
motivated,
nurseries,
nursery,
obscurely,
The Nursery,
The Turning Point,
turning point,
types,
wallpaper,
worthless
«Remember your humanity and forget the rest»
«All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(
Critic,
Philosopher,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
hearts,
Hearts of,
humanities,
humanity,
inscribe,
In Humanity,
in order,
masked,
masking,
masks,
monstrous,
order,
terrifies,
terrify,
terrifying,
themselves,
wear,
wear on
«Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Love
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Keywords:
alter,
course,
elevates,
freedom,
humanities,
humanity,
In Humanity,
Laws,
phenomena,
spirit,
spirit world
«It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Change,
Humanity,
Inspiration,
Progress
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Keywords:
able,
going,
has-been,
humanities,
humanity,
In Humanity,
ITS,
known,
where