You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.
The naturalist conception of man has above all been influenced by the Darwinian doctrine of the Origin of Species, and by the evolutionary theories to which this gave rise.
The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism.
Nevertheless the decline of classical studies does not necessar-ily involve the decline of liberal education itself.
The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
Heaven forbid that we should try to solve our educational problems in this way by imposing a compulsory political ideology on the teacher and the scientist!
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
Christian culture is not the same thing as medieval culture.
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.
At the same time Western culture has lost its faith in Man.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
As I have pointed out, it is the Christian tradition that is the most fundamental element in Western culture. It lies at the base not only of Western religion, but also of Western morals and Western social idealism.
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.