Top 19 Quotes by Allan Bloom

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.