Peter Kreeft

Quotes

“Humility is thinking less about yourself, not thinking less of yourself.”
p. 100
“Love unifies by individuating and individuates by unifying. At what moment do lovers come into the most perfect possession of themselves as individuals if not when they are most lost in each other?”
p. 74
“Those who love Tolkien are almost always good people, honest people. Some are Hobbit-like and some are Elvish, but none are Orcish. Not all Tolkien haters are Orcs, but all Orcs are Tolkien haters.”
The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings
“At exactly the time when the fatal knowledge of how to destroy the entire human race has fallen forever into our hands, the knowledge of morality has fallen out.”
p. 20

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Books by Peter Kreeft in the order they were published, from Love Is Stronger Than Death (1979) to Between One Faith and Another (2017).