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Quote by Allan Bloom
The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradito

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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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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Ignorance & Stupidity
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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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Failure
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Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors. – Elbert Hubbard

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A machine has value only as it produces more than it consumes — so check your value to the community. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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