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Allan Bloom Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american philosopher Allan Bloom on topics like education, belief, failure

  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.

    — Allan Bloom on education
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  • Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

    — Allan Bloom on music
    11
  • 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 on reading
    5
  • The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

    — Allan Bloom on america
    4
  • The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

    — Allan Bloom on community
    4
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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 on authentic
    2
  • 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 on belief
    2
  • 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 on teaching
    2
  • Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

    — Allan Bloom on prejudice
    1
  • Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant.

    Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?

    — Allan Bloom on ignorance
    1
  • The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.

    — Allan Bloom on education
    1
  • There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.

    — Allan Bloom on morals
    0
  • About Allan Bloom

    Name Allan Bloom
    Quotes 22 quotations
    Nationality American
    Profession Philosopher
    Birthday October 16
    About Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, essayist and academic. Bloom championed the idea of 'Great Books' education, as did his mentor Leo Strauss. Bloom became famous for his criticism of contemporary American higher education, with his views being expressed in his bestselling 1987 book, The Closing of the American Mind.
    Top topics education, belief, failure, real, truth
  • Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment.

    — Allan Bloom on laziness
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  • The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

    — Allan Bloom on education
    0
  • 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 on authority
    0
  • 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 on culture
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  • 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 on belief
    0
  • 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 enable them autonomously to seek that completion.

    — Allan Bloom on education
    0
  • 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 on arrive
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  • As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

    — Allan Bloom on tradition
    0
  • 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 and success are all that they can imagine.

    — Allan Bloom on parenting
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  • The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers... of all men to the extent that they know.

    — Allan Bloom on community
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  • Related Topics

    • education
    • movement
    • darkness
    • light
    • music
    • singular
    • generation
    • addiction
    • reading
    • failure
    • read
    • good
    • books
    • enfeebles
    • vision
    • strengthens
    • fatal
    • tendency
    • belief
    • america
    • spirit
    • home
    • satisfied
    • community
    • potential
    • real
    • seek
    • truth
    • man
    • knowers
    • authentic
    • deeds
    • form
    • life
    • lived

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