Dogma Quote by Leo Strauss Download Open image “Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.” — Leo Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dogma Knowledge Mean
Philosophizing is a process of making sense out of experience. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
Philosophizing is simply one way of being afraid, a cowardly pretense that doesn't get you anywhere. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
All modern philosophizing is political, policed by governments, churches, academics, custom, fashion, and human cowardice, all off which limit it to a fake learnedness. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
We tend to think of philosophies as produced by professional philosophers. Traditionally, this has meant people who have written dissertations on obscure subjects or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The process of philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel 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
“The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which is almost always applicable. The word comes from… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
How shall freedom be defended? By arms when it is attacked by arms, by truth when it is attacked by lies, by faith when… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual,… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
My rap comes from a sociological standpoint rather than picking a particular side or dogma or ideology. I just want people to be free… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I reject the idea there are just two sides. I think that with the amount of ideas and thoughts there are, it's not even… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
The search for truth is a cooperative, unending endeavor. We can, and should, engage in it to the extent we can and encourage others… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization. We must put question marks along many of our inherited legal dogmas, since they are… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
“The dogma of the impossibility of determining the atomic constitution of substances, which until recently was advocated with such fervor by the most able… — Wilhelm Korner Copy Share Image