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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America (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. (Allan Bloom Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The self is the modern substitute for the soul (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 (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication (Allan Bloom Quotes)
The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be (Allan Bloom Quotes)
The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization’s only chance to get to him (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being (Allan Bloom Quotes)
It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself (Allan Bloom Quotes)
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment (Allan Bloom Quotes)
As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men’s taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. (Allan Bloom Quotes)
There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. (Allan Bloom Quotes)
The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger. (Allan Bloom Quotes)
An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment (Allan Bloom Quotes)
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Education is the movement from darkness to light (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Professors had made reason into a public prejudice and were now among the prejudiced (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Such groups abandoned merely formal freedom to support substantive causes (Allan Bloom Quotes)
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden (Allan Bloom Quotes)
The students substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Man is the problem, and we live with various stratagems for not facing it (Allan Bloom Quotes)
The issue is what is the social science atom (Allan Bloom Quotes)
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead (Allan Bloom Quotes)
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music (Allan Bloom Quotes)
We now take what were only interpretations of our souls to be facts about them (Allan Bloom Quotes)