Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion. - Allan Bloom
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.
- Allan Bloom
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that m… - Allan Bloom
The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities, that m…
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk. - Allan Bloom
Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.
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 s… - Allan Bloom
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 s…
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
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.
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth i… - Allan Bloom
There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth i…
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the conde… - Allan Bloom
I am now even more persuaded of the urgent need to study why Socrates was accused. The dislike of philosophy is perennial, and the seeds of the conde…
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such l… - Allan Bloom
A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such l…
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. - Allan Bloom
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
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