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Leo Strauss [1899-1973] German
Rank: 105
Philosopher


Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States. 

Wisdom

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If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. Wisdom
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If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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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.
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I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.
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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.
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But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
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