If the natural sciences can be successfully united with the social sciences and the humanities, the liberal arts in higher education will be revitalized. The future of the liberal arts lies in addressing the fundamental questions of human existence head on, without embarrassment or fear, taking them from the top down in easily understandable language, and progressively rearranging them into domains of inquiry that unite the best of science and the humanities at each level of organization in turn.

(E.O. Wilson, Consilience)

"The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization."
(Franz Boas)

"Life is the dance. Like the stage they will be loved you as well as hated you."
(Okty Budiati)

"People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown."

(Vaslav Nijinsky)

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known. (Blaise Pascal)

Hell is empty and all the devils are here. (William Shakespeare)

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. (Confucius)

Art is the proper task of life. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life. (Franz Boas)