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

Quote by Allan Bloom

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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment...

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

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

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

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

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

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering...

There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering...

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the...

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of...

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The...

We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The...

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for...

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for...

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every...

Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every...

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect...

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect...

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of...

The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal...

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

A book without an index is like a mind without a memory

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little...

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little...

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are...

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are...