Peter Kreeft Quotes

...nobody can stand truth if it is told to him. Truth can be tolerated only if you discover it yourself because then, the pride of discovery makes the truth palatable.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

You can only hate someone whom you have the capacity to love, because if you are really indifferent, you cannot even get up the enough energy to hate him.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Whenever somebody hates you too much it usually means they have deeper feelings for you because nobody bothers to hate you unless they actually feel something.

Hate is a strong word. It's also very destructive, so no - I don't hate Mark Zuckerberg.

We fear something before we hate.

I actually hate receiving gifts, it makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.

I hate babies. They're so human.

The opposite of love is not hate. It is fear.

What a man hates, he takes seriously.

I've never been in that position in my life, where I hate a celebrity so much that I want to call them names.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

(Wil Wheaton) was so fun to have on the set, and he was such a good guy, just in general. He seemed to be completely okay with the fact that his entire name became a mantra of vengeful hate. That didn't seem to bother him.

Because when you hate something, you stop doing it.

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.

I hate losing more than I like winning.

If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy.

There are so many songs that I hate.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

There is no hate without fear. Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking. Thus we hate what threatens our person, our liberty, our privacy, our income, our popularity, our vanity and our dreams and plans for ourselves. If we can isolate this element in what we hate we may be able to cease from hating... Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

For 'tis impossible Hate to return with love.