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

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Allan Bloom
Age: 62 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 14
Died: 1992
Died: October 7
Classical Scholar
Journalist
Philosopher
Political Scientist
Indianapolis
Indiana
Allan David Bloom
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This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
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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.
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
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Professors of Greek forget or are unaware that Thomas Aquinas, who did not know Greek, was a better interpreter of Aristotle than any of them have proved to be, not only because he was smarter but because he took Aristotle more seriously.
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Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.
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Once the law is broken with impunity, each man regains the right to any means he deems proper or necessary in order to defend himself against the new tyrant, the one who can break the law.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a ... relationship? The term relationship ... betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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Every age is blind to its own worst madness.
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It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself.
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The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling.
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Socrates' way of life is the consequence of his recognition that we can know what it is that we do not know about the most important things and that we are by nature obliged to seek that knowledge.
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.
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These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.
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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.
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The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.
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