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.
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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.Allan Bloom
The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
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There are great industries of psychotherapy that address our difficulties in 'relationships' -- that pallid, pseudoscientific word the very timidity of which makes substantial attachments impossible. One has to have a tin ear to describe one's great love as a relationship.
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