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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

Education is the movement from darkness to light. — Allan Bloom

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

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. — Allan Bloom

Every age is blind to its own worst madness. — Allan Bloom

The self is the modern substitute for the soul. — Allan Bloom

It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself. — Allan Bloom

Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. — Allan Bloom

I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love — Allan Bloom

The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for. — Allan Bloom

The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger. — Allan Bloom

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

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

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. — Allan Bloom

Self-interest is hostile to the common good, but enlightened self-interest is not. And this is the best key to the meaning of enlightenment. — Allan Bloom

Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason. It now means accepting everything and denying reason's power. — Allan Bloom

I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. — E.D. Hirsch Jr.

I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros. — Allan Bloom

One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation. — Allan Bloom

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. — Allan Bloom

The students [of the 60s] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents conspicuous consumption. — Allan Bloom

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk. — Allan Bloom

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

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. — Allan Bloom

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment. — Allan Bloom

I am not a conservative - neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook ... I just do not happen to be that animal. — Allan Bloom

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible. — Allan Bloom

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

This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration. — Allan Bloom

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

University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. — Allan Bloom

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible. — Allan Bloom

The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man. — Allan Bloom

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

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

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. — Allan Bloom

There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. — Allan Bloom

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

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