The Philosopher
Leo Strauss
The face
The background
- Nationality:
- German-American
- Branchs:
- Political philosophy, History of philosophy, Greek philosophy, Islamic philosophy, Jewish philosophy, Continental philosophy, Philosophy of religion
- Period:
- 20th-century
The synopsis
The works
Persecution and the Art of Writing
Thoughts on Machiavelli
History of Political Philosophy
Natural Right and History
The City and Man
On Tyranny
The 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.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
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.
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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.