Love and Friendship Quotes

“Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provide us with the greatest variety of erotic expression, and with Shakespeare eros is the proper term to use.”
― Allan Bloom, Love and Friendship

“I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love”
― Allan Bloom, Love and Friendship

“I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.”
― Allan Bloom, Love and Friendship

“It tried to rescue sex from Christian original sin and to recover the union of body and soule of Platonic eros while guaranteeing the reciprocity missing from the Platonic understanding of love and friendship..”
― Allan Bloom, Love and Friendship

“But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic”
― Allan Bloom, Love and Friendship