"The present age has seen a great slump…" — Christopher Dawson

"The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values."

— Christopher Dawson

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36 Quotes by Christopher Dawson

Christopher Dawson has 36 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…
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…
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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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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