Allan Bloom Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• 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

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

• Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion.

  Allan Bloom

  Belief, Illusion, Reason

  "Closing of the American Mind".

• It was not necessarily the best of times in America when Catholics and Protestants were suspicious of and hated one another; but at least they were taking their beliefs seriously, and the more or less satisfactory accommodations they worked out were not simply the result of apathy about the state of their souls.

  Allan Bloom

  America, Catholic, Soul

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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