Peter Kreeft Quotes

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.

Philosophy is for the few.

Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don't learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.

I have taught Philosophy, Religious Studies, English Literature, Cultural Studies, Writing and Publishing Studies, Critical Thinking.

My high school did not offer courses in philosophy, so the books that initially stimulated philosophical reflection in me were novels by Charles Dickens, Henry James, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Learning philosophy is learning a particular kind of intuitive understanding.

I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

It was 1988, and I was just finishing a D.Phil at Oxford University on the topic of 'Nietzsche and German Idealism.'

It seems to me that in our lifetime we have passed from the wreck of liberal humanism to the beginning of a new recognition of dogma: isn't it rather tremendous?

Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.

I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.

I question: do we really understand the differences between modernist and postmodernist?

Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

Philosophy begins in wonder.

If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply to that society.