Allan Bloom Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.

  Allan Bloom

  Real, Commitment, Dedication

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

• Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

  Allan Bloom

  Education, Art, Passion

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

• The self is the modern substitute for the soul.

  Allan Bloom

  Self, Soul, Modern

• There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

  Allan Bloom

  Teacher, Retirement, Real

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

• 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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