Quotes by Allan Bloom

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

#Age, #Funny

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

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

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

#Allan Bloom

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

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

#Allan Bloom

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

#Allan Bloom

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

#Allan Bloom

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

#Completion, #Education

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

#Allan Bloom

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

#Books, #Failure