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Allan Bloom quote: "Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is..."

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.

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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud
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