“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost ev...” — Allan Bloom Quote

“There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.”

“The longing for Europe has been all but extinguished in the young.”

“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.”

“Whether one believes in miracles or the miraculous has mostly to do with the presuppositions one brings to the subject.”

“It's very difficult to distinguish between what a person believes and what they say they believe.”

“If somebody believes that a certain practice will get them to heaven, and then other people believe a different way of doing it, I think it's their choice.”