"Education is the movement from darkness to light." — Allan Bloom
"Education is the movement from darkness to light."
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Allan Bloom
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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom
Allan Bloom has 58 quotes on this site.
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption.
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More Darkness Quotes
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Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
— Francis Bacon
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I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I…
— Kevin Bacon
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I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into…
— Kevin Bacon
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
— Edward Abbey
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It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary.…
— Saint Basil
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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No durable things are built on violent passion. Nature grows her plants in silence and in darkness, and only when…
— Annie Besant
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which…
— Emily Bronte
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I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to…
— Nicolas Cage
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Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
— Julia Cameron
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Every candle that gets lit in the dark room must feel a little rejection from the darkness around it, but…
— Kirk Cameron
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