Life is the joyless quest for joy. - Leo Strauss

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Life is the joyless quest for joy.

Leo Strauss

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About Leo Strauss

Leo Strauss (September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973) was a German-born American philosopher who specialized in the study of classical political philosophy.

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Karl Popper Richard M. Weaver Bertrand Russell Alfred North Whitehead Immanuel Kant

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Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

The sophist, in contradistinction to the philosopher, is not set in motion and kept in motion by the sting of the awareness of the fundamental difference between conviction or belief and genuine insight.

It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In doing the latter one necessarily distorts the high, whereas in doing the former one does not deprive the low of the freedom to reveal itself as fully as what it is.