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Allan Bloom Quotes

American - Philosopher | September 14, 1930 - October 7, 1992

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Education Light Darkness Movement

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.

Success Children Parenting Wise Lost

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

Tradition Dead Come Soon Recognized

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.

Political Heritage Now Seriously

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

Prejudice Worst Reason Because Only

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.

Beautiful Great Play Living Ignorant

Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

Life Great People Thoughts Values

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.

Children Parents Wait Silver Rock

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

Age Important Protect Reason Most

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Music Generation Nothing Addiction

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.

Failure Good Vision Now Belief Here

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

Home America Spirit Satisfied

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