Belief Quote by Allan Bloom

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.”

Allan Bloom

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

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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…

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The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...His whole life…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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

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