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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.


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One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.



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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.



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



Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.

Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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.



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

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





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