Quote by Allan Bloom
Any notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as mens taste a

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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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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Education in our times must try to find whatever there is in students that might yearn for completion, and to reconstruct the learning that would enable them autonomously to seek that completion. – Allan Bloom

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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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If a man will not work, he shall not eat. – Bible

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The sluggard does not plow after the season, so he begs during the harvest and has nothing. Proverbs 20:4 – Bible

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I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive. – Lord Chesterfield

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Tomorrow is the only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man. – Jimmy Lyons

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Its cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. Theyll tell me if Im doing something stupid! – Jordin Sparks

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The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic. – Henry Ward Beecher

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