Leo Strauss Quote

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own point of view, or the more he is prepared to admit the possibility that he may have to learn something, not merely about the thinkers of the past, but from them.

p. 68 - What is Political Philosophy (1959)

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own...

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own...

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own...

Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of the superiority of his own...