Amusement Quote by Christopher Dawson

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

— Christopher Dawson

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

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

— 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.

— Christopher Dawson

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

The chief safeguard of personal freedom in a democratic society is the anarchy and disorder of capitalist individualism.

— Christopher Dawson

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

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

We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing…

— Christopher Dawson

“Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.”

— Christopher Dawson

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

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