Courses in the humanities, in particular, often se... -Martha Nussbaum

Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind to become more responsive, more critical, bigger.

Martha Nussbaum , Philosopher
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Martin Luther King and Gandhi were not people who failed in self-respect. They were people of hope and great courage, and their courage was discipline...
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Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are your equals. And a fea...
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, the ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control that can lead you t...
Suppose you endow a charity, or university. You could put your name on it, but you could also endow it in honor of some teacher you had. People differ...
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The imagination is an innate gift, but it needs refinement and cultivation; this is what the humanities provide....
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Fear requires belief that you will be harmed, and it is easily manipulated by rhetoric....
You have to address anger, fear, and then to think about what the alternatives are: hope, faith, a certain kind of brotherly love. And then you have t...

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I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimula...
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of reader...
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions....
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim....
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to f...
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get m...
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite ...
I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but ...
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work....
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 y...