All Allan Bloom Quotes
- 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
- We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain… Alive
- 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 us… Accepting
- Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. Absence
- All literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible… All
- There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing… All
- Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. Conceived
- Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them… Any
- The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Beauties
- A serious life means being fully aware of the alternatives, thinking about them with all the intensity one brings to bear on life-and-death questions, in… All
- Never did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to… Bless