Allan Bloom Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Culture, Duty

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Western Civ," p. 22, 1990.

• 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

  Beautiful, Civilization, Play

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

• Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does "culture" become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

  Allan Bloom

  Appreciate, Sublime, Doe

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 280, 1990.

• The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

  Allan Bloom

  Culture, World, Infrastructure

  "Giants and Dwarfs". Book by Allan Bloom. Chapter: "Commerce and Culture," p. 281, 1990.

• Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

  Allan Bloom

  Communication, Greek, Special

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

• Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.

  Allan Bloom

  Art, Creativity, Men

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