Leo Strauss Quotes on Virtue
Leo Strauss was a German-Jewish philosopher who emigrated to the United States in 1937 and spent most of his career at the University of Chicago. This page collects quotes attributed to Leo Strauss on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Leo Strauss:
“The fundamental question is whether men can acquire that knowledge of the good without which they cannot guide their lives by the unaided efforts of their natural powers.”
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Attributed to Leo Strauss:
“Wisdom requires unhesitating loyalty to a decent constitution.”
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Attributed to Leo Strauss:
“Philosophy is the quest for wisdom or for knowledge regarding the most important things.”
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“Note on the Plan of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil ", Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 3, nos. 2 and 3 (1973)”
The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to [Nietzsche] only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. … The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.