All Allan Bloom Quotes
- The self is the modern substitute for the soul. Modern
- It is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more… Attraction
- Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would… Autonomously
- I am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal. Animal
- The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for. Been
- Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk. Equal
- The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that… Assure
- The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. America
- It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself. Greatest
- Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. Archeology
- 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… Acts
- Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of… Art
- [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. Became
- The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. All
- This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. Future
- Children tend to be rather better observers of adults' characters than adults are of children's, because children are so dependent on adults that it is… Adults
- Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading… Art
- An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. Education
- The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. American
- We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. Civilization