"It may well be that a societys greatest……" — Allan Bloom
"It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself."
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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom
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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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