Quote by Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – 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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Failure
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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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Tradition
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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Tradition

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else? – Eric Hoffer

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Tradition

Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss

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Tradition

I felt theres a wealth in Jewish tradition, a great inheritance. Id be a jerk not to take advantage of it. – Herman Wouk

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Tradition

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In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that would end the abuses and injustices of capitalism and the privileges of a bureaucratic caste, collective faith does not exist. – Juan Goytisolo

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