"God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental……" — Leo Strauss
"God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible."
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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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For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.
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But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
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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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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It…
— Albert Barnes
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any…
— John Adams
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
— Joe Barton
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The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit…
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
— Rob Bell
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
— William Blake
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
— Elayne Boosler
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being…
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