"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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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

#Education Quotes #Art Quotes #Passion Quotes

“And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love"...”
“I'm very fatalistic about life. Whatever happens, happens. The imperative for me is that I do my contribution for my people, for my culture. I still want to make films for them. I still want to make films that confront our struggles.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Magnetizing things to ourselves is a natural process, but what are we magnetizing towards ourselves, is what we're giving out.”
“Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.”

Source : 1810 'Journal 2' in F Sidgwick (ed) The Complete Marjory Fleming (1934).
“A woman is truly beautiful only when she is naked and she knows it.”
“It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.”
“I hated the culture, I hated the work. I very quickly realized that this wasn't what I wanted to do. So, after two years, I took some writing courses - I always loved to write - and I figured the only way I was going to get paid to write was in journalism. I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now.”
“The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of barter that can exchange human hands.”

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