If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
More Quotes from Leo Strauss:
I may never have experienced a centaur, but by imagining one, I know that I can also imagine others that resemble this one and yet are different.Leo Strauss
I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.
Leo Strauss
If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.
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God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.
Leo Strauss
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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