"Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of……" — Allan Bloom
"Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled."
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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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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination…
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A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up…
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God as now generally conceived of is only the last witch.
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We are a nation conceived, born and nurtured by faith... Our faith is declared in our Constitution, on our currency…
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Only Christ could have conceived Christ.
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But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a…
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Living, as I do, in an educated and scientific atmosphere, I could not have conceived that the first principles of…
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Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived…
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I have never conceived that having been in public life required me to belie my sentiments, or to conceal them.…
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That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their…
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Biology can be divided into the study of proximate causes, the study of the physiological sciences (broadly conceived), and into…
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