Christopher Dawson Quotes

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• The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
• The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
• Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood and…
• If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life…
• It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not…
• It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially…
• Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has…
• The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need…
• The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
• The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to…
• The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her own…
• Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one
• Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively…
• You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all…
• It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West,…
• Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic or political ends which are not really ends in themselves…
• The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the…
• The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language

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