Quotes Christopher Dawson

American literature has never been content to be just one am...

And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old ...

As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is...

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight ...

But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and he...

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization ...

Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of...

For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberat...

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in...

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and a...

It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a n...

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regar...

It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any partic...

Law describes the way things would work if men were angels....

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; h...

Man is a means and not an end, and he is a means to economic...

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a ...

No doubt Western civilization has in the past been full of w...

No society lies nearer to the cyclonic path of the forces of...

The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle...

The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the ...

The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or b...

The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every...

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

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of ...