"No matter what conservatives may think, traditions had a beginning that was not traditional"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"A true political or social order requires the soul to be like a Gothic cathedral, with selfish stresses and strains helping to hold it up"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"A society's greatest madness seems normal to itself"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"Indignation is the soul's defense against the wound of doubt about its own; it reorders the cosmos to support the justice of its cause"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind

"People become more alike, for want of knowing they can be otherwise"

Allan Bloom. The closing of the american mind