"Education is the movement from darkness to light."

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Source : Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

Allan Bloom

#Education Quotes #Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT Now it's a daily word”
“A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.”

Source : "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.
“Sometimes shows suffer from having many cooks in the kitchen.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The alternative to intellectual property is straightforward: intellectual products should not be owned, as in the case of everyday language. That means not owned by individuals, corporations, governments, or the community as common property. It means that ideas are available to be used by anyone who wants to.”
“A basic tenet of healthy democracy is open dialogue and transparency”
“When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making.”

Source : "Arca's Warped Beauty". Interview with Philip Sherburne, pitchfork.com. Novermber 19, 2015.
“I like everything that has to do with ghosts. If I see it, I'm all over it. We all have our thing.”
“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2011). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.314, Souvenir Press

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