"The real community of man is the community……" — Allan Bloom

The real community of man is the community of those who seek… - Allan Bloom

"The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers."

— Allan Bloom

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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is…
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments…
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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 Community Quotes

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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the… — Aristotle
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. — Francis of Assisi
That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. — Marcus Aurelius
We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans. — Alan Autry
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do… — Ibrahim Babangida
Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also… — Joe Baca
Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10… — Ernie Banks
I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated… — Jane Addams
Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. — Xavier Becerra
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. — Henry Ward Beecher

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