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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

#books #both #failure #fatal #good

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#cannot #establish #illusion #most #pernicious

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

— Allan Bloom

#function #important #itself #most #protect

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. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#almost #believes #certain #entering #every

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. ↗

— Finley Peter Dunne

#cannibals #classified #eat #like #look

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. ↗

— Kirsten Dunst

#container #golden #i #looks #most

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#cannot #deeply #enough #enough people #familiar

What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#call #exclude #managed #mostly #page

I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you are in a relationship with a woman, imagine how you would feel if you were her father. That's been my approach, for the most part. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#approach #been #father #feel #got

I missed my home - like the physicality of my home, I missed my friends and my family mostly and just hanging out and being in your home country - culturally it feels right and that is what I miss. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#country #culturally #family #feels #friends