"This freedom of political discussion on the highest……" — Christopher Dawson
"This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with no other"
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36 Quotes by Christopher Dawson
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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…
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For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the…
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If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give,…
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It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to…
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It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human…
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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…
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The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings…
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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…
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More Antiquity Quotes
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and…
— James Buchan
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
— Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to are paid to antiquity,…
— Ben Jonson
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Of all the documents that have come down from antiquity, Genesis three is the only one that explains how the…
— Unknown Author
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If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of…
— John Ruskin
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In every age he had ever studied, doomsayers abounded. No millennium is attractive to the man immured in it; enough…
— Janet Morris
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History is the witness of the times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the teacher of life, the…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
— Unknown Author
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With respect to those points, on which the declaration of Scripture is positive and decisive, as, for instance, in asserting…
— William Buckland
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Study the past if you would define the future. I am not one who was born in the possession of…
— Confucius
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