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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

Topics: Belief Books Both Failure Fatal Good Here Most Now Our Read Strengthens Tendency Vision

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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.

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Topics: Because Form Instrument Liberation Only Prejudice Reason Transformed Worst

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The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

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Topics: Community Man Potential Real Seek Those Truth Who

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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.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: About Arrive Critical Cynical Either Heritage Ignorant Inspired Lacking Now Our Political Seriously Students University

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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.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Always Authority Children Entertainment Entertainment Industry Everything Gives Grew Had Industry Later Parents Public Rock Silver Tell Them Understand Until Up Used Wait Would

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

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Topics: America Entirely Home Satisfied Spirit

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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 surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Beautiful Civilizations Fragments Great Having Ignorant Like Living Notion Once Part Play Pop Shepherds Site Structures Surface Up Were Where Which

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

~Allan Bloom

Topics: Come Dead Recognized Soon Tradition

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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

Topics: After Become Did Easy Every He High-School How Ignorant Knew Knows Labor Lifetime Now Only Socrates Student

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 14th, 1930

Died: October 7th, 1992

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