We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.


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

Allan Bloom Quotes

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.

We need history, not to tell us what happened or to explain the past, but to make the past alive so that it can explain us and make a future possible.