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Leo Strauss Quotes

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful Picture Quote #1

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness Picture Quote #1

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 - and man Picture Quote #1

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 people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption Picture Quote #1

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness Picture Quote #1

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one Picture Quote #1

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We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific Picture Quote #1

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge Picture Quote #1

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books Picture Quote #1

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood Picture Quote #1

Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society Picture Quote #1

Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true Picture Quote #1

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It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists Picture Quote #1

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas Picture Quote #1

The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things Picture Quote #1

Is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom Picture Quote #1

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair Picture Quote #1

It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them Picture Quote #1

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom Picture Quote #1

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 visible Picture Quote #1

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back Picture Quote #1

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 on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar Picture Quote #1

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 doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is Picture Quote #1

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness Picture Quote #1

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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 of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance Picture Quote #1

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 and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint Picture Quote #1

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 change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse Picture Quote #1

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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful (Leo Strauss Quotes) Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness. (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 - and man. (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 people; the Jews are chosen to prove the absence of redemption (Leo Strauss Quotes) Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness (Leo Strauss Quotes) I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one (Leo Strauss Quotes) We believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific (Leo Strauss Quotes) Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge (Leo Strauss Quotes) Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books (Leo Strauss Quotes) One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood (Leo Strauss Quotes) Liberal education is the necessary endeavor to found an aristocracy within democratic mass society (Leo Strauss Quotes) Even by proving that a certain view is indispensable for living well, one proves merely that the view in question is a salutary myth: one does not prove it to be true (Leo Strauss Quotes) It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists (Leo Strauss Quotes) The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas (Leo Strauss Quotes) The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things (Leo Strauss Quotes) Is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom (Leo Strauss Quotes) Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair (Leo Strauss Quotes) It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them (Leo Strauss Quotes) If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 visible (Leo Strauss Quotes) For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 on blindness to the nobility of the effort, is vulgar (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is (Leo Strauss Quotes) Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint (Leo Strauss Quotes) 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 change, we wish to bring about something better. All political action is then guided by some thought of better or worse (Leo Strauss Quotes)