The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.
Allan BloomAn education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.
Allan BloomClassical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
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