“ It tried to rescue sex from Christian original sin and to recover the union of body and soule of Platonic eros while guaranteeing the reciprocity missing from the Platonic understanding of love and fr… Allan Bloom
“ True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness. Allan Bloom
“ Although the natural rights inherent in our( Constitutional) regime are adequate to the solution of this ( minority) problem...the equal protection of the law did not protect a man from contempt and h… Allan Bloom
“ The very fact of their fury shows how much Plato threatens what is dear and intimate to them. They are little able to defend their experience, which had seemed unquestionable until questioned, and it… Allan Bloom
“ The inflamed sensitivity induced by radicalized democratic theory finally experiences any limit as arbitrary and tyrannical. There are no absolutes; freedom is absolute. Of course the result is that,… Allan Bloom
“ Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. Allan Bloom
“ Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassure… Allan Bloom
“ Here’s a real man! I said. It’s been pretty transparent all along that other people’s opinions about these things wouldn’t be enough for you. Allan Bloom
“ One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation. Allan Bloom
“ The faith in God and the belief in miracles are closer to the truth than any scientific explanation, Allan Bloom
“ But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic Allan Bloom
“ Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. 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
“ Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw materi… Allan Bloom
