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Letter "A" » 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.»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Books,
Failure
| Keywords:
enfeebled, enfeebles, fatal, here and now, strengthens, tendency, The Vision
«Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.»
«There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
entering, professor, relative, student, the University, university
«Education is the movement from darkness to light.»
«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»
«Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.»
«Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice»
«Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion»
«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»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Politics,
Students
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, critical, cynical, heritage, inspired, lacking, students, the University, university, wherewithal
«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»
Author: Allan Bloom
| About:
Competence,
Family
| Keywords:
aspiration, competence, fathers, mothers, specialize, specialized, specializing
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