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.
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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.
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.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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?
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.
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.
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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.