The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their … - Allan Bloom

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I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen.

Allan Bloom

The first discipline modernity's originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.

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Education is the movement from darkness to light.

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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.

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The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.

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Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.

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