Quotes by Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom

American writer

Lived from: 1930 - 1992

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 14 september 1930 Died: 7 october 1992

  • 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.

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  • As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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  • Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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  • 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.
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  • Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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  • 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.
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  • Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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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?
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  • Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
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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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  • 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.
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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.
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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.
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  • The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
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  • The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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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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  • The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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What are the most famous quotes from Allan Bloom?

The two most famous quotes from Allan Bloom are:

  • "As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead."
  • "Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts."

When did Allan Bloom live?

Allan Bloom was born in 1930 and died in the year 1992.