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Allan Bloom
 
Name:   Allan Bloom
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Sep 14, 1930
 
Date of Death:   Oct 7,  1992
 
Profession:   Philosopher
 
 
 
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
 
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The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
 
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows others worthy of consideration.
 
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
 
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