We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. - Allan Bloom Quotes
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. Allan Bloom
 American Philosopher Living

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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. - Allan Bloom Quotes

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

Allan Bloom

 American Philosopher Life Quote of the Day
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it - Allan Bloom Quotes

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

Allan Bloom

 Politics
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 had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. - Allan Bloom Quotes

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 had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Allan Bloom

 American Philosopher Authority
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 Quotes

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

 American Philosopher Belief
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative - Allan Bloom Quotes

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

Allan Bloom

 Teachers And Teaching
Education is the movement from darkness to light. - Allan Bloom Quotes

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

 American Philosopher Darkness
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech - Allan Bloom Quotes

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech

Allan Bloom

 Existence
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. - Allan Bloom Quotes

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

 Addiction American Philosopher
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice - Allan Bloom Quotes

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice

Allan Bloom

 Prejudice
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion - Allan Bloom Quotes

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

Allan Bloom

 Belief
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