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Allan Bloom Quote: “Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does “culture” become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.”

51. “Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does “culture” become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”

52. “There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”

53. “Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.”

54. “Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.”

— Allan Bloom

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

55. “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

Allan Bloom Quote: “The most striking fact about contemporary university students is that there is no longer any canon of books which forms their taste and imagination... This state of affairs itself reflects the deeper fact of the decay of the common understanding of – and agreement on – first principles that is characteristic of our times.”

56. “The most striking fact about contemporary university students is that there is no longer any canon of books which forms their taste and imagination... This state of affairs itself reflects the deeper fact of the decay of the common understanding of – and agreement on – first principles that is characteristic of our times.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “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.”

57. “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

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

58. “The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “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.”

59. “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.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “The distinction between the world of commerce and that of “culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.”

60. “The distinction between the world of commerce and that of “culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “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.”

61. “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

Allan Bloom Quote: “Contrary to what is commonly thought, without the book even the idea of the order of the whole is lost.”

62. “Contrary to what is commonly thought, without the book even the idea of the order of the whole is lost.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “I have no desire... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love.”

63. “I have no desire... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons.”

64. “In us the contempt for the heroic is only an extension of the perversion of the democratic principle that denies greatness and wants everyone to feel comfortable in his skin without having to suffer unpleasant comparisons.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Here’s a real man!” I said. “It’s been pretty transparent all along that other people’s opinions about these things wouldn’t be enough for you.”

65. “Here’s a real man!” I said. “It’s been pretty transparent all along that other people’s opinions about these things wouldn’t be enough for you.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “The inflamed sensitivity induced by radicalized democratic theory finally experiences any limit as arbitrary and tyrannical. There are no absolutes; freedom is absolute. Of course the result is that, on the one hand, the argument justifying freedom disappears and, on the other, all beliefs begin to have the attenuated character that was initially supposed to be limited to religious belief.”

66. “The inflamed sensitivity induced by radicalized democratic theory finally experiences any limit as arbitrary and tyrannical. There are no absolutes; freedom is absolute. Of course the result is that, on the one hand, the argument justifying freedom disappears and, on the other, all beliefs begin to have the attenuated character that was initially supposed to be limited to religious belief.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassured; the religious man is exalted in his prayer by the sound of the organ in the church; and the lover is carried away and his conscience stilled by the romantic guitar. Armed with music, man can damn rational doubt.”

67. “Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassured; the religious man is exalted in his prayer by the sound of the organ in the church; and the lover is carried away and his conscience stilled by the romantic guitar. Armed with music, man can damn rational doubt.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.”

68. “Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic.”

69. “But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.”

70. “What poor substitutes for real diversity are the wild rainbows of dyed hair and other external differences that tell the observer nothing about what is inside.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.”

71. “Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “I simply try to act as an honest broker for greater persons and writers than I am... I present no theory, nor do I have one... I have constructed no Schema... in terms of the struggle between Eros and agape and the futility of the former in the face of the latter. I have no aspirations, hoping only to show you what some great writers thought these things are.”

72. “I simply try to act as an honest broker for greater persons and writers than I am... I present no theory, nor do I have one... I have constructed no Schema... in terms of the struggle between Eros and agape and the futility of the former in the face of the latter. I have no aspirations, hoping only to show you what some great writers thought these things are.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.”

73. “Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.”

74. “The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together.”

75. “People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “He argued that the spirit’s bow was being unbent and risked being permanently unstrung.”

76. “He argued that the spirit’s bow was being unbent and risked being permanently unstrung.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Without the great revelations, epics and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside.”

77. “Without the great revelations, epics and philosophies as part of our natural vision, there is nothing to see out there, and eventually little left inside.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “There is a quest, but ever more hopeless, for arrangements and ways of putting the broken pieces back together. The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. Such is particularly the demand of children, against which parents are now rebelling.”

78. “There is a quest, but ever more hopeless, for arrangements and ways of putting the broken pieces back together. The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves. Such is particularly the demand of children, against which parents are now rebelling.”

— Allan Bloom

Allan Bloom Quote: “Cultural relativism destroys both one’s own and the good.”

79. “Cultural relativism destroys both one’s own and the good.”

— Allan Bloom

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