Leo Strauss Quotes
It was not the 'God-intoxicated' philosopher but the hard-headed, not to say hard-hearted, pupil of Machiavelli and philologic-historical critic of the Bible. Orthodoxy could be returned to only if Spinoza was wrong in every respect.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Papa died when he was 77.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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If you can do something great in 60 seconds, you can do anything, really.
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How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.
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The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.
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As the man, so his God
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I like to hire people that I've seen in action. I often hire people that were on the opposing side of a deal that I respect.
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It was not the 'God-intoxicated' philosopher but the hard-headed, not to say hard-hearted, pupil of Machiavelli and philologic-historical critic of the Bible. Orthodoxy could be returned to only if Spinoza was wrong in every respect.
