Famous Quotes / Allan Bloom
13 Quotations by Allan Bloom
- 1. As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
- 2. Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great ...
- 3. Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completio ...
- 4. Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their childre ...
- 5. Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrum ...
- 6. Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industr ...
- 7. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...
- 8. The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...
- 9. The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not becau ...
- 10. The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
- 11. The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
- 12. There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magi ...
- 13. We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The sheph ...