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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

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

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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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

Category:
parenting
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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

Category:
Ignorance & Stupidity
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Allan Bloom
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Other Quotes from
Tradition
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He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Tradition

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

Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. – Dorothy Day

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Tradition

There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it. – Alexander Herzen

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Tradition

Random Quotes

It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

Category:
Loneliness

Too many women throw themselves into romance because theyre afraid of being single, then start making compromises and losing their identity. I wont do that. – Julie Delpy

Category:
Romantic

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, trust me, you dont want my life. Ive been a very tortured soul. – Phil Spector

Category:
Trust

But its much more exciting to make Die Hard. One of the reasons that I think that movie is so successful is it deals with those very important blue-collar relationship themes. But its more visually beautiful to show things blowing up. It just gives you more on the screen. – Penn Jillette

Category:
relationship