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

Thinking, Makes, Seeing

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

God, Possible, Bible

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

God, Bible, Premise

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

God, Him, Reason

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

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

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

Wisdom, Cannot, Virtue

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Philosopher

Born: September 20, 1899

Died: October 18, 1973

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