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8 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
“President Trump is, in his way, more democratic than the rest of us, because he’s able to understand and to impress people who are not refined in their thinking and in their ways.”
02 / evaluation
“They see the books that I assign and answer to my remarks and try to put their own lives in some kind of relationship to those great books. They don’t all become professors; most of them lawyers and businessmen, but they’ve found something that is valuable and will serve them the rest of their life, give them something to do in their spare time and give them a kind of guide for what they’re working at.”
03 / evaluation
“I think Strauss would have liked to introduce John Locke to Rawls and show him how Locke set up things better than he had, that Locke’s state of nature was a better picture of the fundamental principle of liberalism than Rawls’s original position.”
04 / evaluation
“If you make all your plans open and public, then I think whoever it is that you’re acting on, even if it’s a friend or a friendly power, will react and perhaps foil what you plan to do.”
05 / evaluation
“The understanding of knowledge as prediction really begins, I would say, with him.”
06 / evaluation
“I think maybe that ambition to write for other times—or Thucydides said, to write a book which is a possession for all times—has left us, and that the authors are not trying as they might have done to write that kind of book.”
07 / evaluation
“The effectual truth, he says, is what comes out of the truth, or what is the effect if you say to somebody, “I love you.”
08 / evaluation
“He wants to make a point of the dirty necessities of politics and of founding so that he doesn’t start with the Stone Age or even the Iron Age, but all the way to the Bronze Age, but still just as people are on the edge of beginning civilization.”