The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan BloomThe artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
Allan BloomAn education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan BloomIt was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.
Allan Bloom