63 Quotes by Leo Strauss

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.

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

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

I may never have experienced a centaur, but by imagining one, I know that I can also imagine others that resemble this one and yet are different.

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values.

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