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Arnold J. Toynbee

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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


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


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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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


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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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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


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


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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A life which does not go into action is a failure.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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About Arnold J. Toynbee

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Did you know about Arnold J. Toynbee?

A character in the P. With Philip Toynbee Comparing Notes: A Dialogue across a Generation (Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1963). His first marriage was to Rosalind Murray (1890–1967) daughter of Gilbert Murray in 1913; they had three sons of whom Philip Toynbee was the second.

This page is about the universal historian Arnold Joseph Toynbee; for his uncle the economic historian Arnold Toynbee see Arnold Toynbee. A religious outlook permeates the Study and made it especially popular in the United States for Toynbee rejected Greek humanism the Enlightenment belief in humanity's essential goodness and the "false god" of modern nationalism. Toynbee in the 1918–1950 period was a leading British consultant to the government on international affairs especially regarding the Middle East.

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