Students have powerful images of what a perfect body is and pursue it incessantly. But deprived of literary guidance, they no longer have any image o… - Allan Bloom

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of “culture” quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of property were just what Aristotle did not talk about. They are the conditions of happiness; but the essence of happiness, according to Aristotle, is virtue. So the moderns decided to deal with the conditions and to let happiness take care of itself.