Allan Bloom Quote

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.


Closing of the American Mind (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2008) - ISBN: 9781439126264


The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.