Leo Strauss Quotes

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• The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
• The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is the meaning of the chosen…
• A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations of success, and is based…
• One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
• For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
• But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
• God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
• God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world -…
• If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
• All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for the worse; when desiring to…
• If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
• No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy…
• The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
• Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit…
• It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In…
• I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.
• All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even…

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