"A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism."

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Source : Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

Allan Bloom

#Beautiful Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Names Quotes

“Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together, whose destinies are tied up with one another. Each features the components of a relationship: leaders perform roles relative to the led, the young to the old, and male to female; and each is involved with the process of decision-making, use of authority, and the seeking of common goals.”
“Yesterday was the New York City Marathon. The marathon was won in record time by a Democrat candidate running away from President Obama.”
“Success is seldom permanent, and failure is seldom fatal. The important thing is to keep trying.”
“Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.”
“I think the honesty not only shines through in my work, but also my personal life. And I get in trouble for being honest. I'm extremely old-fashioned. I'm a nobleman. I'm chivalrous.”
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”
“It takes practice to hear your true desires. Your passion will often come as a whisper or serendipitous event that reminds you of what's important and what makes you happy.”
“New York! I've always wanted to see it and now I've see it. It's true what they say-- it's the most wonderful city in the world.”

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