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The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.
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The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.
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Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of…
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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations…
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher…
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life…
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For…
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Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every…
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The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back…
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The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
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Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.
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The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved…
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Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of…
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Western civilisation came to this country in 1788 and I'm proud of that
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Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion…
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe…
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Jesus is absolutely at the centre of Western civilisation and part of my fascination with him is, why? What is it about…
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The Japanese keenly learned from Western civilisation in a bid to modernize and preserve the nation.
— Akihito
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We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both…
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying…
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