Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

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The real community of man is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers.

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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

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Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

Allan Bloom in The Closing of the American Mind
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.

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

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