Classical Antiquity Quotes by Christopher Dawson

More Quotes by Christopher Dawson

Christopher Dawson has 45 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations…
• If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher…
• It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life…
• It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For…
• Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every…
• The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back…
• 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…

See all 45 quotes by Christopher Dawson »