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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
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
— Leo Strauss
The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
— Leo Strauss
The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
— Leo Strauss
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
Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.
— Leo Strauss
Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.
— Leo Strauss
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
— Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.
— William Kristol