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. (Allan Bloom)

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.

Allan Bloom

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