Author: Christopher Dawson

Quotes

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

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

- Christopher Dawson

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

- Christopher Dawson

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

- Christopher Dawson

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them.

- Christopher Dawson

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

- 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.

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.

- Christopher Dawson

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

- Christopher Dawson

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

- Christopher Dawson

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