Leo Strauss

“Reading between the lines is the art of discovering the true intention of a writer.”

“A 'living' Constitution is a 'dead' Constitution.”

“Liberal education is liberation from vulgarity.”

“What is 'first' for us is not 'first' in itself.”

“The city is a cave... The sun is the idea of the good.”

“The unphilosophic man is not necessarily the uneducated man.”

“The crisis of the West consists in the West's having become uncertain of its purpose.”

“The problem with the West is that it has become a society of individuals who are not willing to die for anything.”

“Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.”

“Philosophy is the quest for the truth about the whole, for the sake of the good.”

“The demand for equality is a demand for the public recognition of the equal worth of all human beings.”

“The beginning of wisdom is the admission of one's ignorance.”

“All political philosophy is an attempt to replace opinion about the nature of political things by knowledge of the nature of political things.”

“The modern political project, in its final form, is the universal and homogeneous state.”

“The problem of the relation between philosophy and society is coeval with philosophy itself.”