"For try as one may to expel nature……" — Leo Strauss
"For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back."
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Leo Strauss
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17 Quotes by Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss has 17 quotes on this site.
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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
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The Jewish people and their fate are the living witness for the absence of redemption. This, one could say, is…
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A conservative, I take it, is a man who despises vulgarity; but the argument which is concerned exclusively with calculations…
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One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.
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But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
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God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his…
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If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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All political action aims at either preservation or change. When desiring to preserve, we wish to prevent a change for…
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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men,…
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The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,
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More Always Come Quotes
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Don't corral me, and I'll always come home. Just let me go out and play during the day.
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Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you…
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The most entertaining songs don't always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I'm being really sensitive,…
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's…
— Barack Obama
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But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We must distinguish between those who depend on others, that is between those who to achieve their purposes can force…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Aw, don't worry about that Doc. If it happens I could always come back as a forward.
— Unknown Author
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When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear.
— Drake
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Whether we electrons, light quanta, benzol molecules, or stones, we shall always come up against these two characteristics, the corpuscular…
— Werner Heisenberg
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I didn't worry about it because I kind of felt I left a good message and memory with the people…
— Tina Turner
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
— Joseph Joubert
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Srebrenica's not simply another reminder of man's inhumanity to man, but how intelligent people can always come up with intelligent…
— Scott Simon
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