University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden. Allan Bloom More Quotes by Allan Bloom More Quotes From Allan Bloom Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand. Allan Bloom communication greek special It may well be that a societys greatest madness seems normal to itself. Allan Bloom madness normal may The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. Allan Bloom spirit home america The self is the modern substitute for the soul. Allan Bloom modern soul self Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be. Allan Bloom instinct pleasure children There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display. Allan Bloom real doe needs These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle. Allan Bloom house men order Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. Allan Bloom tolerance errors enemy The humanities are like the great old Paris Flea Market where, amidst masses of junk, people with a good eye found cast away treasures...They are like a refugee camp where all the geniuses driven out of their jobs and countries by unfriendly regimes are idling. Allan Bloom eye jobs country Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science. Allan Bloom creativity men art Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later. Allan Bloom silver-platter music children As Western nations became more prosperous, leisure, which had been put off for several centuries in favor of the pursuit of property, the means to leisure, finally began to be of primary concern. But, in the meantime, any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Allan Bloom favors men mean Never 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 support blessing thinking The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom philosopher economic psychological Openness, as currently conceived, is a way of making surrender to whatever is most powerful, or worship of vulgar success, look principled. Allan Bloom powerful looks way [A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. Allan Bloom leisure taste men Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. Allan Bloom alternatives liberty mind 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 Bloom alive past needs The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him. Allan Bloom college education years The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption. Allan Bloom parent compassion students
