The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration. Allan Bloom
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself. Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. Allan Bloom
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. 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. Allan Bloom
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. Allan Bloom
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise – specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. Allan Bloom