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Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the british historian Arnold J. Toynbee on topics like life, civilization, civilizations

  • America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room.

    Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on america
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  • Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on civilization
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  • The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on city
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  • To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on civilization
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  • Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on civilization
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on society
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  • The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on work
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  • History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on action
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on goals
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  • America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on america
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  • A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on city
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  • 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 J. Toynbee on success
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  • About Arnold J. Toynbee

    Name Arnold J. Toynbee
    Quotes 24 quotations
    Nationality British
    Profession Historian
    Birthday 14 April 1889
    About Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of International History at the London School of Economics and the University of London and author of numerous books. Toynbee in the 1918–1950 period was a leading specialist on international affairs. He is best known for his 12-volume A Study of History (1934–1961).
    Top topics life, civilization, civilizations, room, wags
  • Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on power
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  • A life which does not go into action is a failure.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on failure
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on achievements
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on responsibility
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  • The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on belief
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  • 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 J. Toynbee on freedom
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  • History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on history
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on apathy
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  • 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 J. Toynbee on birth
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  • I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on advertising
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on appeared
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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.

    — Arnold J. Toynbee on civilization
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