Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
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 BloomIt was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.
Allan Bloom