Peter Kreeft Quotes

History is not just a story related by a fool.

History is not what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago; it's a story about what happened 200 or 2,000 years ago.

People tend to forget that the word "history" contains the word "story".

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I've always been a history buff. It was one of the few subjects at school that really, really caught me. I think you'll find a lot of actors will be interested in history because it sparks your imagination so much. When you enter a period of history, your imagination just goes wild in creating the world, which is really what acting is.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Most of us get our history through story.

I think fiction recues history from its confusions.

History begins in novel and ends in essay.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I've always loved history and history is collage, it is a juxtaposition of the good and the bad and the strange, and how you place those sentences together changes the whole mood of a history.

History is the revelation of Providence.

People have different ways of interpreting history.

History after all is the true poetry.

History is basically really looking back and finding out what happened to an individual, a community, a family, a group in a certain event. And so that's why I go, "Wow. That's what acting really is. You find out the background, you get the joy of creating a fictional history of a fictional character and you get to tell a story." So I felt that acting is making history come alive and it became my mode of trying to figure out what this craft of acting is really all about.

History is the queen of the humanities. It teaches wisdom and humility, and it tells us how things change through time.

There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, "This can't go on; let's build a European Union." And it just wasn't like that.

History, contrary to popular theories, is kings and dates and battles.

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.

How real is history? Is it just an enormous soup so full of disparate ingredients that it is uncharacterizable?