The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom
As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. – Allan Bloom
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
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