One aspect of humanism can be summed up in the Latin phrase, "Ad Fontes." This basically means "back to the sources." Hence, humanism is a desire to go back to the classical world in literature, the arts, and other learning. This aspect can be seen in that the humanists went back to the Greeks and the Romans. In other words, they sought to cut through all the medieval traditions. This caused a flowering of culture and some would say that the humanist even surpassed the Classical world. Whether they did or did not, that is a matter of opinion. What matters is that humanism was a related to the classical world.
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