“Despite what your left-leaning liberal arts education instilled in you, reading, writing, and creating is a luxury not a right. Entitlement is thinking otherwise.”— Molly Guy, vogue.com
“Do something you love and never work a day in your life they said. So I got a liberal arts degree.”— GraphicCreations, reddit.com
“A liberal arts degree actually is good for something. Because of its diversity, the liberal arts provide a surprisingly good base for growth and learning.”— Kenneth Burke, thoughtcatalog.com
“That Wheaton couldn’t make room for a scholar like Hawkins raises questions about what real diversity might look like in a setting where a certain uniformity of belief is essential.”— Ruth Graham, nytimes.com
“Really, why should we be forced to assume that there is an essential difference between 'true' and 'false' in the first place? Isn't it enough to assume that there are degrees of apparency and, so to speak, lighter and darker shadows and hues of appearance—different valeurs to use the language of pa…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it.”— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, amazon.com
“If music was studied, recreated or now-first-expressed emotion, why was he listening with such strained intensity, as if to learn some answer, solve some important life-riddle? Wasn't it the case, in fact, that he'd been listening all this while for the wrong thing entirely; that music— for that mat…”— John Gardner, Peter Mickelsson, amazon.com
“In the fall of 2004, my freshman students and I analyzed a speech of John Kerry's and found it confused, contradictory, inchoate, and weak. Six weeks later I went out and voted for John Kerry. What I was doing in class was subjecting Kerry's arguments to an academic interrogation. Do they hang toget…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com
“It is quite true that today a great deal of art grows out of exhibitionist impulses. Certainly some of the worst does. Maybe some of the best. It may even be possible that all art involves a certain exhibitionism at least of some vague sublimated kind.”— Walter Ong, cdm.slu.edu
“One of the basic and difficult lessons every artist must learn is that even the failed pieces are essential.”— David Bayles, amazon.com
“The most profound choice in life is to either accept things as they exist or to accept the responsibility for changing them.”— Don Koberg, amazon.com
“The simplest reply was given by Tolstoy with his statement, 'Science is meaningless because it has no answer to the only questions that matter to us: What should we do? How shall we live?’ The fact that science cannot give us this answer is absolutely indisputable. The question is only in what sense…”— Max Weber, amazon.com
“Indeed, when liberal arts education is doing its job properly, it is just like poetry because, like poetry, it makes no claims to efficacy beyond the confines of its performance. A good liberal arts course is not good because it tells you what to do when you next step into the ballot box or negotiat…”— Stanley Fish, amazon.com