3 Leo Strauss Quotes on Truth

Leo Strauss quotes on truth

4. The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.

7. [W]e believe that failing to call a spade a spade is not scientific.

8. It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.