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Leo Strauss quotes: I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

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

Leo Strauss quotes: But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.

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

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

Leo Strauss quotes: Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

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.

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 silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.

Leo Strauss quotes: One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Leo Strauss quotes: The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

Leo Strauss quotes: For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.

Leo Strauss quotes: The complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.

The complacency engendered by the tranquil possession of a God-given truth.

Leo Strauss quotes: Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

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

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

Leo Strauss quotes: Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.

Leo Strauss quotes: Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.

Leo Strauss quotes: But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.

Leo Strauss quotes: God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

Leo Strauss quotes: The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism,

The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism - nay, it is identical with nihilism,

Leo Strauss quotes: Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.

Existentialism is a 'movement' which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. That center is the thought of Heidegger.