The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.
Allan BloomThe artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
Allan BloomThere is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and doing no voluntary harm to anyone. Those are all things easy to say and hard to do; they do not attract much attention, and win little honor in the world.
Allan Bloom