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Arnold J. Toynbee

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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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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


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


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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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


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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


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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.


— Arnold J. Toynbee


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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


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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


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About Arnold J. Toynbee

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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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