Quote by Allan Bloom
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civili

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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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

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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

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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. – Ruth Benedict

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Every mans ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. – John Abbott

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It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young. – Konrad Lorenz

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