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 BloomThe most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan BloomThis nation's impulse is toward the future, and tradition seems more of a shackle to it than an inspiration.
Allan Bloom[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.
Allan Bloom