Author: Allan Bloom

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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.

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.

- Allan Bloom

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

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

- Allan Bloom

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

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

- Allan Bloom

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

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

- Allan Bloom

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.

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.

- Allan Bloom

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

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

- Allan Bloom

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

- Allan Bloom

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

- Allan Bloom

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