"There is no real teacher who in practise……" — Allan Bloom
"There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech."
—
Allan Bloom
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
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.
See all 58 quotes by Allan Bloom »
More Acts Quotes
This quote is filed under Acts Quotes,
one of 1,679 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
-
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
— Aristotle
-
The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
— Teresa of Avila
-
What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
— Sai Baba
-
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
-
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
— Bernard Baruch
-
Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
— Joseph Addison
-
The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
— Pope Benedict XVI
-
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
— Alfred Adler
-
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
— William Blake
-
Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
— John Boehner
See all 1,679 Acts Quotes »