Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals…

One of the characteristics of the university is that it is made up of professors who train professors, or professionals training professionals. Education was…

— Pierre Hadot

“As most Van Tilians realize, Van Til fought diligently to purge the Reformed tradition from the remnants of scholasticism that remained in the thought…

— William D. Dennison

Behind the epistemological scholasticism of empirio-criticism one must not fail to see the struggle of parties in philosophy, a struggle which in the last…

— Vladimir Lenin

I was trained as a political scientist and the profession bores me, to be frank. I am truly bored by mainstream work in my…

— James C. Scott

“Despite scholasticism or skepticism, skepticism is the confirmation and proof of existence. It follows that if we affirm and confirm the existence, we must,…

— Dejan Stojanovic

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if…

— Anonymous

Equality assertion of all cultures is disrespectful against human achievements. It is absurdity that the philosophy which got tangled at the level of scholasticism…

— Ilkin Santak

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

— Miguel de Unamuno

One must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes,…

— Che Guevara

“The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period. Two rival positions developed: the maculist…

— Alister E. McGrath

“The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself.”

— Susan Neiman

“The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, . . . which is treating what is vague as if it were precise…”

— F. P. Ramsey

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

— Alan Watts

“Dogmatism compensates for evidence.”

— Dana Wallace