Acquiring a degree of judgment that can make these elements intelligently cohere is–or used to be–the whole purpose of education. It is why we study the humanities. What history and classics and literature tell us is not to be found in the sciences anywhere. Nowadays we seem to have forgotten this crucial insight, on which the future of our civilisation nonetheless hangs.

— The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist