The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
Allan BloomFreedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.
Allan BloomError is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
Allan BloomThe facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan Bloom