Quote by Allan Bloom
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration

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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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part. – Allan Bloom

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Culture
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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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Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste and capacity to live it, has disappeared. Leisure has become entertainment. – Allan Bloom

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Laziness
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a fathers protection. – Sigmund Freud

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Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. – Proverb

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I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin. – Norma Shearer

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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. – Francis Bacon

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My mom, shes still always there for me. Always. – David Ortiz

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. – Elias Canetti

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A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. – Bertrand Russell

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