We are like ignorant shephe... by Allan Bloom, an American Philosopher

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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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Name: Allan Bloom

Nationality: American

Date of Birth: Sep 14, 1930

Date of Death: Oct 7, 1992

Profession: Philosopher

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Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

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There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

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