The sirens sing sotto voce these days, and the young already have enough wax in their ears to pass them by without danger.
Allan BloomMost of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.
Allan BloomIt is easy today to deny God's creativity as a thing of the benighted past, overcome by science, but man's creativity, a thing much more improbable and nothing but an imitation of God's, exercises a strange attraction.
Allan BloomThere is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.
Allan BloomThe 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 BloomNever did I think that the university was properly ministerial to the society around it. Rather I thought and think that society is ministerial to the university, and I bless a society that tolerates and supports an eternal childhood for some, a childhood whose playfulness can in turn be a blessing to society.
Allan Bloom