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Them Quotes by 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 competence…
- Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they…
- Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle