إنّ الموسيقى هي اللغة الأولى والبدائية للروح، وهي بلا كلام أو منطق. فهي ليست فقط غير منطقية، بل هي مُعادية للمنطق. حتى عندما تُضاف الكلمات للموسيقى—كما في الأغاني—فإنها تكون خاضعةً لها تمامًا ومحددةً من قِبلها ومن قِبل المشاعر التي تعبر عنها الموسيقى.

- آلان بلوم

Country, religion, family, ideas of civilization, all the sentimental and historical forces that stood between cosmic infinity and the individual, providing some notion of a place within the whole, have been rationalized and have lost their compelling force.

- Allan Bloom

The honesty of this generation of students causes them to laugh when asked to act as though they were powerful agents in world history.

- Allan Bloom

صراحةُ هذا الجيل من الطلاب تجعلُهم يضحكون حين يُطالبون بالتصرّف كما لو كانوا أفرادًا مؤثِّرين في تاريخ العالم.

[The younger generation has] a greater indifference to the past and a loss of a national view of the future. The only common project engaging the youthful imagination is the exploration of space, which everyone knows to be empty.

- Allan Bloom

No wonder that the one novel that remains continuously popular with students is Camus’s The Stranger.

- Allan Bloom

I just remembered my friends who love Camus,
Allan Bloom says hi 😂

And his dark secret love,
Does thy life destroy.

- William Blake, The sick Rose

The sick rose

A serenade for tenor, horn, and strings

وهاي الأغنية كاملة، ببساطة هي عبارة عن مجموعة قصائد قديمة من شعراء مختلفين.
اسمعوها وية الليركس when u feel particulary aristocratic

As soon as they envisage from afar their separation, as soon as they foresee the moment which is going to make them strangers to one another, they are already strangers. Each sets up his own little separate system; and both engrossed by the time they will no longer be together, stay only reluctantly.

- Emile, by Rousseau

The presence of choice already changes the character of relatedness.

- Allan Bloom, commenting on the above

ما أنْ يبصرا إحتمالية انفصالهما ولو بعدَ وقتٍ طويل، ما أنْ يتوقعا اللحظة التي ستجعلهما غريبَين بالنسبة لبعضهما البعض، فإنهما يكونان غريبَين بالفعل.
كلٌّ منهما يصنعُ نظامه الخاص والمنفصِل؛ وكلٌ منهما، ما دام منهَمِكًا بالتفكير بالوقتِ الذي لن يكونا به سويةً، يمكثُ مُكرَهًا مع الآخر.

أسد (رمز الآلهة عشتار) من بوابة بابل.

The task is equivalent to squaring the circle, because everyone loves himself most but wants others to love him more than they love themselves.

- Allan Bloom, talking about modern "relationships"

صارت المسألةُ أشبه بإدخالِ الجمل في سَمّ الخياط، لأنّ كل شخصٍ يحبّ ذاته أكثر من أي شيء، لكنه يريد من الآخرين أنْ يحبّوه أكثر مما يحبّون أنفسَهم.

- آلان بلوم وهو يتحدث عن "العلاقات العاطفية"

“Relationships,” not love affairs, are what they have. Love suggests something wonderful, exciting, positive and firmly seated in the passions. A relationship is gray, amorphous, suggestive of a project, without a given content, and tentative. You work at a relationship, whereas love takes care of itself. In a relationship the difficulties come first, and there is a search for common grounds. Love presents illusions of perfection to the imagination and is forgetful of all the natural fissures in human connection. About relationships there is ceaseless anxious talk, the kind one cannot help overhearing in student hangouts or restaurants frequented by men and women who are “involved” with one another, the kind of obsessive prattle so marvelously captured in old Nichols and May routines or Woody Allen films. In one Nichols and May bit, a couple who have just slept together for the first time, assert with all the emptiness of doubt, “We are going to have a relationship.”

- Allan Bloom