Leo Strauss
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"Leo Strauss" was a German-American Political philosophy/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. He spent most of his career as a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, where he taught several generations of students and published fifteen books.

Originally trained in the neo-Kantian tradition with Ernst Cassirer and immersed in the work of the phenomenology (philosophy)/phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Strauss later focused his research on the Greek texts of Plato and Aristotle, retracing their interpretation through medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and encouraging the application of those ideas to contemporary political theory.

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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.

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.

God is therefore unknowable. This is the fundamental premise of the Bible.

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.

I cannot know anything of which there is and can be only one.

If God is One, and if there can be no other God, there can be no idea of God.

But the God of the Bible is not only One, but the only possible One.