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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?
Allan Bloom
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Allan Bloom
Age: 62 †
Born: 1930
Born: September 14
Died: 1992
Died: October 7
Classical Scholar
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Philosopher
Political Scientist
Indianapolis
Indiana
Allan David Bloom
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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.
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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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Human nature must not be altered in order to have a problem-free world. Man is not just a problem-solving being, as behaviorists would wish us to believe, but a problem-recognizing and -accepting being.
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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.
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An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
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Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
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There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.
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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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[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.
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The self is the modern substitute for the soul.
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The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
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