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Arnold J Toynbee Quotes

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History is a vision of God’s creation on the move  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) A life which does not go into action is a failure  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our actions are governed by compassion and love, not by greed and aggressiveness  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) The penalty of affluence is that it cuts one off from the common lot, common experience, and common fellowship. In a sense it outlaws one automatically from one’s birthright of membership in the great human family  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) 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 Quotes) The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man’s strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life’s purpose  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Love’s way of dealing with us is different from conscience’s way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we do because we want to  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don’t wait till you feel that you are in the mood. Write, whether you are feeling inclined to write or not  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) 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 Quotes) Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) The equation of religion with belief is rather recent  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes) 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 Quotes) No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field  (Arnold J Toynbee Quotes)