We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.
Allan BloomThe liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
Allan BloomAll literature up to today is sexist. The Muses never sang to the poets about liberated women. It's the same old chanson from the Bible and Homer through Joyce and Proust.
Allan Bloom