Allan Bloom Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.”

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

“Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.”