Leo Strauss Quotes

Understanding is a three-edged sword. Your side, my side, and the truth.

Light is the symbol of truth.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

I like to open people's eyes.

Personally, I like to put things in perspective.

Light itself is a revelation.

Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

I saw more than I can tell / And I understood more than I saw.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

I used to try to figure out precisely what I was seeing all the time, until I discovered that I didn't need to. If the thing is true, why there it is.

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.