Accused Quote by Allan Bloom

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth…

— Allan Bloom

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

— Allan Bloom

Shakespeare's naturalness is attested to by the strange fact that he is the only classical author who remains popular. The critical termites are massed…

— Allan Bloom

The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.

— Allan Bloom

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously…

— Allan Bloom

Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish…

— Allan Bloom

Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial…

— Allan Bloom

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

— Allan Bloom

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized…

— Allan Bloom

As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means…

— Allan Bloom

Historicism and cultural relativism actually are a means to avoid testing our own prejudices and asking, for example, whether men are really equal or…

— Allan Bloom