Leo Strauss Quotes

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

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

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.

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

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.