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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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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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 harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Matthew 9:37 – Bible

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Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. – Miguel de Cervantes

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