Democracy Quote by Leo Strauss

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

— Leo Strauss

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

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

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