This is true in the sense that the Humanities train and organize the brain so that it can have sublime experiences.
A sublime experience is when you derive non-physical pleasure from things that do not involve your self. When you enjoy the fan because it makes you cooler, that’s not sublime. It’s self-referential and also physical. But when you experience intense pleasure from observing the simple geometric lines against the white ceiling, that’s sublime.
However, the Humanities education alone isn’t enough to fill your life with sublime experiences derived from all sorts of things, from complex, like art, to simple, like the one in the photo. You also need what is clumsily called mental health. You need a mind that is not chaotic and not filled with suppurating pustules that make it impossible to leave aside the preoccupation with the self and get libidinally invested into things that are completely outside yourself.
One of the clearest symptoms of your mental health improving is that all of a sudden you start noticing the beauty of the things around you and you gasp with intense physical pleasure derived from often seemingly insignificant things like the view of the ceiling fan from a certain angle. But yes, you also need to have your brain trained on aesthetic experiences.
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