There 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 BloomAuthentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
Allan BloomEducation is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.
Allan BloomReason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.
Allan BloomOur Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.
Allan Bloom