Famous Allan Bloom Quotes

  • 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

    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

  • 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

    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