Quote by Allan Bloom
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice,

Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice. – Allan Bloom

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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise… specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine. – Allan Bloom

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parenting
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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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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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Culture
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Prejudice
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Prejudice iz a hous plant which iz very apt tew wither if yu take it out doors amungst pholks. – Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–1885) [Or if you prefer, the “tran

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Prejudice

All colors will agree in the dark. – Francis Bacon

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Prejudice

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies. – James Fenimore Cooper

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Prejudice

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. – Oscar Wilde

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Prejudice

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Sleep… Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death. – Author unknown, various wordings commonly attributed to Henry Wadsworth Longfell

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