Top 19 Quotes by Allan Bloom

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

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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