Quote of the day
One of the first signs of the beginnings of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one will only in time come to hate.
Leo Strauss
Born: September 20, 1899
Died: October 18, 1973 (aged 74)
Bio: Leo Strauss was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy. He was born in Germany to Jewish parents and later emigrated from Germany to the United States.
Known for:
- Natural right and history (1953)
- The City and Man (1964)
- Persecution and the Art of Writing (1952)
- On Tyranny (1963)
- The political philosophy of Hobbes (1959)
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