"The facile economic and psychological debunking of the……" — Allan Bloom
"The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties."
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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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More Beauties Quotes
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
— Joseph Addison
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in…
— Daniel Boone
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I am firmly of the opinion that women who make a lot of effort to hang onto their looks in…
— Julie Burchill
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It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our…
— Jimmy Carter
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
— William Shakespeare
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
— Robert Greene
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
— Lord Chesterfield
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and…
— Nhat Hanh
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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
— Rajneesh
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