Allan Bloom Quote

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does culture become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can at best appreciate the monuments of earlier faith; it cannot produce them.

Commerce and Culture, p. 280. - Giants and Dwarfs (1990)

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does culture become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can...

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does culture become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can...

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does culture become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can...

Only when the true ends of society have nothing to do with the sublime does culture become necessary as a veneer to cover over the void. Culture can...