“But dogmatism—or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking"—is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
Men are constantly attracted and deluded by two opposite charms: the charm of competence which is engendered by mathematics and everything akin to mathematics,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
“But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.” — Leo Strauss Copy Share
“Todo ser humano y toda sociedad es lo que es en virtud de su máxima aspiración. La ciudad, si es sana, aspira no a… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
“Only a great fool would call the new political science diabolic: it has no attributes peculiar to fallen angels. It is not even Machiavellian,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
We somehow believe that our point of view is superior, higher than those of the greatest minds either because our point of view is… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
The most superficial fact regarding the 'Discourses,' the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's 'History,' compelled… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share
History teaches us that a given view has been abandoned in favor of another by all men, or by all competent men, or perhaps… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice,… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
Liberal education, which consists in the constant intercourse with the greatest minds, is a training in the highest form of modesty. ... It is… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. — Leo Strauss Copy Share
The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism, — Leo Strauss Copy Share
When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge… — Leo Strauss Copy Share
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