There 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 BloomI am not a conservative — neo or paleo. Conservatism is a respectable outlook... I just do not happen to be that animal.
Allan BloomThere is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
Allan BloomCommitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
Allan Bloom