Leo Strauss Quotes

"I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one."
- Leo Strauss

"If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom."
- Leo Strauss
(Related: Wisdom, Virtue, Man)

"If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God."
- Leo Strauss
(Related: God, Idea)

"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
(Related: God, Creation, Man, Reason, World)

"But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One."
- Leo Strauss
(Related: God, Bible)

"God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible."
- Leo Strauss
(Related: God, Bible)