"It is easy today to deny God's creativity……" — Allan Bloom
"It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction."
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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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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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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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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
— Jane Austen
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
— Luke Bryan
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