"The man who is fond of books is……" — Christopher Dawson

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"The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions."

— Christopher Dawson

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36 Quotes by Christopher Dawson

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

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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