Allan Bloom

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

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

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.