Bloom

Famous quotes containing the word bloom:

“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency—the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)

“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)