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Danh ngôn của Allan Bloom (Sứ mệnh: 7)

Education is the movement from darkness to light.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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.
The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.
Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
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.
I never considered myself a writer. I'm a teacher. In a way, I feel kind of... kind of guilty for all the people who are writers who hope to be on the best-seller list someday, who live for that and don't get it, and it came to me as a kind of free gift, like God coming to Abraham and announcing, 'I've chosen you!'
The way I knew I was right about something was the kids got angry. That's very important: you touch that anger.