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Leo Strauss

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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


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


— Leo Strauss


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


— Leo Strauss


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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


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


— Leo Strauss


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


— Leo Strauss


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


— Leo Strauss


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About Leo Strauss

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Originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging applying their ideas to contemporary political theory. 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 publiLeo Straussd fifteen books.

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