“It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.”
Leo Strauss
Tag: Quote of the Day
11MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism – nay, it is identical with nihilism.”
Leo Strauss
10MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.”
Leo Strauss
09MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.”
Leo Strauss
08MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“No bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint.”
Leo Strauss
07MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Carl Jung
06MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls.”
Carl Jung
05MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire”
Carl Jung
04MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Jung
03MAR2019 – Quote of the Day
“Absolute tolerance is altogether impossible; the allegedly absolute tolerance turns into ferocious hatred of those who have stated clearly and most forcefully that there are unchangeable standards founded in the nature of man and the nature of things.”
Leo Strauss