Bacon, Locke, Descartes, Hume, and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property,… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Social science and humanities ... have a mutual contempt for one another, the former looking down on the latter as unscientific, the… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Locke had illegitimately selected those parts of man he needed for his social contract and suppressed all the rest, a theoretically unsatisfactory… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The expectation of substantive unity between natural science and social science has faded… Gone is the cosmic intention of placing man in… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
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