Leo Strauss Quotes

Leo Strauss — German Philosopher born on September 20, 1899, died on October 18, 1973

Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books... (wikipedia)

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

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

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.

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.

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

Leo Strauss Quotes

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