Logo
Quote by Allan Bloom
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. - Al

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America. – Allan Bloom

Other quotes by Allan Bloom

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

Category:
Prejudice
Author
Allan Bloom
Read Quote

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

Category:
Culture
Author
Allan Bloom
Read Quote

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

Category:
Community
Author
Allan Bloom
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
America
category

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries. – Saul Bellow

Category:
America

Americans like fat books and thin women. – Russell Baker

Category:
America

I love America more than any other country in this world; and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. – James Baldwin

Category:
America

America is the only country ever founded on the printed word. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
America

Random Quotes

If you do not do what you are supposed to do in life, the universe will do it for you. – Kim Russo, “The Haunting Of… Meat Loaf” (original airdate 2015 October 22n

Category:
Fate

One aged man — one man — cant fill a house. – Robert Frost

Category:
Loneliness

The next morning we saw nothing of the enemy, though we were still lying to. – John Byng

Category:
Morning

The truth is, after Boys Dont Cry, I realized how few and far between the great roles are. I am beyond thankful for finding Million Dollar Baby. – Hilary Swank

Category:
thankful