Leo Strauss Quotes

In our time scholars generally study the Bible in the manner in which they study any other book. As is generally admitted, Spinoza more than any other man laid the foundation for this kind of Biblical study.

Leo Strauss

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We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

Dale Archer
- School
- Kids
- High
We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

Wallace Stevens
- God
- High
- Dark
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.

F. H. Bradley
- May
- Help
- Nature
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Karl Philipp Moritz
- Prayer
- Something
- Whole
Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.

Pardis Sabeti
- Time
- Great
- Interesting
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.

Barbara Corcoran
- School
- Kids
- Help