"The self is the modern substitute for the…" — Allan Bloom

"The self is the modern substitute for the soul."

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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 Modern Quotes

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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid… — Margaret Atwood
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.' — Norman Ralph Augustine
The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not… — Edward Bach
The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now… — Russell Baker
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful… — Johnny Ball
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world… — J. G. Ballard
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies… — Edward Abbey
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers… — Dave Barry
I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. — John Barrymore
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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