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Leo Strauss Quotes

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

– Leo Strauss

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

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

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

– Leo Strauss

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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