Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
A life which does not go into action is a failure. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States is in now. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
When I had got my notes all written out I thought I'd polish it off in two summers, but it took me twenty-seven years. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American idiom, "right now.". Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
History is a vision of God's creation on the move. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The equation of religion with belief is rather recent. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. Arnold Toynbee English Historian More Arnold Toynbee Quotes 0