Allan Bloom, The Closing Of The American Mind Quotes
Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.
Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment.
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.
