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.

Quote by Allan Bloom

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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred...

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

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

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might...

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might...

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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 such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well...

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well...

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of...

Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of...

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...

A man's greatest glory doesn't consist in never falling, but in rising every time he...