Quote by Allan Bloom
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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

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Prejudice
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There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech. – Allan Bloom

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teacher
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – Allan Bloom

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parenting
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Other Quotes from
Failure
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I knew that there were several, among African-American leaders, who had been put out by me because of my failure or reluctance to endorse Sen. Kerry. – Rodney Alexander

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Failure

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same. – Colin R. Davis

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Failure

And I went to New York and died for 10 years I walked those pavements. I cant think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure. – Harvey Korman

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Failure

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. – George Edward Woodberry

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Failure

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It will be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. – George W. Foote

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Religion

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. – Elbert Hubbard

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Failure

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. – Leo Tolstoy

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Life

Those who believe money can do everything are frequently prepared to do everything for money. – Author Unknown

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Money