Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

British - Historian | April 14, 1889 - October 22, 1975

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

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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.

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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

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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.

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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

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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.

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I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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