Philosophical literatureThe most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.Allan Bloom1987★ 5.3
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth, of the potential knowers... Of all men to the extent they desire to know. But in fact, this includes only a few, the true friends, as Plato was to Aristotle at the very moment they were disagreeing about the nature of the good... They were absolutely one soul as they looked at the problem. This, according to Plato, is the only real friendship, the only real common good. It is here that the contact people so desperately seek is to be found.Allan BloomThe Closing of the American Mind · 1987★ 5.2
Political literature · Philosophical literatureThe 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.Allan BloomThe Closing of the American Mind · 1987★ 3.6
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