Quotes by : Allan Bloom

Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children....

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the....

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny....

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide....

Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between....

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

Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion,....

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in....

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the....