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Leo Strauss and his students:
On the educational/therapeutic relationship
There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech ~Allan Bloom
Always assume that there is one silent student in your class who is by far superior to you in head and in heart. ~Leo Strauss
One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. ~Leo Strauss
Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy? ~ Allan Bloom
Prejudices, strong prejudices, are visions about the way things are. They are divinations of the order of the whole of things, and hence the road to a knowledge of that whole is by way of erroneous opinions about it. Error is indeed our enemy, but it alone points to the truth and therefore deserves our respectful treatment. ~ Allan Bloom
The most important lesson that a philosopher can bequeath to his students is that of his own nature. The philosopher’s books can be read in libraries, but the nature of the philosophical spirit, which alone gives meaning and value to those books, is accessible only through direct contact. ~Stanley Rosen
Metaphysics
The possibility of philosophy stands or falls upon the possibility of a philosophical madness more sober than sobriety ~ Stanely Rosen
The soul divines something which it cannot express and this is truer than what the soul can say. ~Leo Strauss (paraphrasing Plato)
One may not fill the soul with wisdom. ~ Stanley Rosen
Peace and War
But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity. ~Leo Strauss
