Leo Strauss Quotes

The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.

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• Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Political
  • Democracy

• Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Die
  • Wisdom
  • Tomorrow

• At 24, I took time off to have a baby, and ever since, I have been juggling modelling with motherhood.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Time
  • Baby
  • Motherhood

• The chef can be very innovative, but the decision is made by the customer.

  

  Barry Lam
  • Decision
  • Customer
  • Chef

• The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • World
  • Country
  • History

• I think a lot of writers are tempted to add complexity by over-complicating things, but always remember that most natural rules/laws are, at their core, simple. Start simple, and build from there, or you risk getting yourself and your readers tangled.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Remember
  • Simple
  • Risk

• I always did TV commercials and made great money to put myself through school. That became guest starring roles on TV shows.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • School
  • Money

• In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Life
  • Women
  • Man

• I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Different
  • Science
  • Political

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Book
  • Terrible
  • Video

• Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

  Ford Frick
  • Decision
  • Sound
  • Anger

• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Game

• We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • True
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • School
  • Dream

• One of our things is that money follows; it does not lead. So we want people that are fired up and passionate about their mission... and people that aren't so married to spreadsheets and thinking that kind of voodoo controls the future. Because it doesn't.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Up
  • Thinking

• The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

  

  Harold Nicolson
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Successful

• I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.

  

  Jessica Lucas
  • Career
  • House

• There is mounting concern worldwide over the consumption of alcohol. The U.S. government estimates that 10.6 million adults are alcoholics and that one family in four is troubled by alcohol. It is a factor in half of all the nation's traffic deaths.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Alcohol
  • Concern
  • Adults

• No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Fight
  • Pet
  • Cats

• As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Different

• The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.

  

  Leo Strauss