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 real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contraditory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of potential knowers… of all men to the extent that they know. – 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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Culture is one thing and varnish is another. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. – Mary Catherine Bateson

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

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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. – Henry Ward Beecher

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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage. – Jack Kingston

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When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable. – Rene Descartes

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