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Leo Strauss

History of Political Philosophy scholar

1899–1973

8 quotes, most often on Philosophy and Democracy.

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.
“What Is Liberal Education?”, in Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 7
- Clever Jabs
- Philosophy
It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low.
Liberalism: Ancient and Modern (1968), p. 225
- Philosophy
The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.
Thoughts on Machiavelli (1958), p. 13
- Philosophy

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