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Quotes from Leo Strauss and Nietzsche — Laurence Lampert

born 1941 Canada

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How can historicism consistently exempt itself from its own verdict that all human thought is historical?

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

Strauss’ whole study indicates that noble nature as Nietzsche presents it—no, embodies it—replaces divine nature as Plato presents it.

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

Nietzsche’s arrival in modern philosophy signaled an unprecedented necessity: “probity”, “intellectual conscience”, Enlightenment radicalized by a new bravery that scorns any comforts like God.

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

Nietzsche discovered the clue to esotericism early … “The fact of the pious fraud.”

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

The way of Socrates had shown itself to be a limited way because it concerned itself “only with the scientific investigation of justice and the virtues,” and it had shown itself to be an intransigent way because it chose “non-conformity and death.” Plato corrected the way of Socrates—he removed the limitation and tempered its intransigence.

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche (1996)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurence Lampert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.