Leo Strauss Quotes

The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.

Leo Strauss

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• If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Up
  • Want
  • Study

• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  

  Larry Bird
  • World
  • American
  • Mean

• I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Wife
  • Ending

• Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Help
  • Think
  • Tough

• During that year at Harvard learning with Carl Steinitz, I had the feeling that I was drinking knowledge out of a fire hose. I learned more in that year than I had learned in the previous ten years of my education.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Feeling
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• One cabbie chastened me by saying that the fashion industry was doing harm to young people, who are trying to live up to an unrealistic ideal. It prompted me to make body image and diversity key issues on 'The Business of Fashion.'

  

  Imran Amed
  • People
  • Up
  • Live

• I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Kind
  • Pleasure
  • Guilty

• Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • Vision
  • Doing
  • Equal

• StockX's live marketplace will harness the Internet's natural ability to facilitate a better way to transact certain segments of ecommerce. We are going to bring the kind of trading platform and visibility to tangible products that financial and commodities markets have used for decades.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Live
  • Financial
  • Internet

• I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Responsibility
  • Doing

• It's clear there is an energy positive in producing ethanol.

  

  Patricia A. Woertz
  • Energy
  • Positive
  • Clear

• Being known for musicals is a great thing.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Great
  • Being
  • Musicals

• I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• I think at first I didn't tell anyone I was writing something because I found so tedious the people who did.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Writing
  • Think

• If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture. I think it's important to have substance for what you're saying.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Good
  • Important
  • Done

• An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

  

  Edmund Burke

• Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • May
  • Night

• Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• We can choose food that doesn't lead to illnesses like diabetes and cancer. We can choose food that doesn't contribute to water pollution and climate change. And we can choose food that keeps local economies vibrant and farmers on their land.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Food
  • Change
  • Water

• I did make a lot of my own clothes. I used to love to sew, so I made my own shirts and bell bottoms and modified my own clothes, which is what we did during the punk period.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Period

• As an actor, you're not a person; you're a product, a commodity. It's about money. Your job is about making money for other people. At some point, you learn how to be on the other side of that table. You write, direct, produce, and create opportunity for yourself. Then you start to make money for yourself.

  

  Lamman Rucker
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • House
  • Opportunity
  • Comedy

• The Euthyphron then gives us a two-fold presentation of piety. First, a discussion of what piety is. Secondly, a presentation of the problem of Socrates' piety.

  

  Leo Strauss