It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism. — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
And so, today, if the state can no longer appeal to the old moral principles that belong to the Christian tradition, it will be… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
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 Copy Share
We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
For humanism also appeals to man as man. It seeks to liberate the universal qualities of human nature from the narrow limitations of blood… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity, but with… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
The Church as a divine society possess an internal principle of life which is capable of assimilating the most diverse materials and imprinting her… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
If man attempts to suppress the animal side of his nature by a sheer effort of conscious will, nature finds a hundred unexpected and… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share
