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Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled.
Allan Bloom
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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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Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.
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An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
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The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
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Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
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Every age is blind to its own worst madness.
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There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
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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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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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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?
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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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Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.
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The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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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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The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
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We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.
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There is no real education that does not respond to felt need anything else acquired is trifling display.
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The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.
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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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This nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
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