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. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#books #narrowmindedness #reading #self-deception #self-limiting-beliefs

Education is the movement from darkness to light. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#education #light #movement

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

#morality #motivational

Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#truth #respect

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#experience

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

— Allan Bloom

#addiction #generation #more #music #nothing

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

— Allan Bloom

#dead #recognized #soon #tradition

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. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#aspiration #children #competence #fathers #highest

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#education #enable #find #learning #might

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

#become #did #easy #every #high-school