Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
The facile delusions which conceal from us our true situation all amount to this: that we are, or can be, wiser than the wisest men of the past. We are thus induced to play the part, not of attentive and… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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