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"10 Allan Bloom Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 14 September 1930 | Philosopher | Classicist | Academician |
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Education Movement Darkness Light
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.

Error Enemy Truth Treatment
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Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

Commitment Word Invented Motives
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I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Desire Preach Edifyng Love
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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.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.

Real Education Respond Display
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One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.

Experience Believing Thril Liberation
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The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation

Faith God Belief Miracles
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Openness used to be the virtue that permitted us to seek the good by using reason.

Openness Virtue Good Reason
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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.

Librally Educated Resist Answers
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Allan Bloom Quotes & Sayings