Quote by Allan Bloom
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he w

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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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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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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Community
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It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don – Maya Angelou

A man profits more by the sight of an idiot than by the orations of the learned. – Arabic Proverb

You must not enthrone ignorance just because there is much of it. – Proverb

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