Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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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.Allan Bloom
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan Bloom
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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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
Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth
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