Category - Arnold J Toynbee

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Arnold J Toynbee

The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee

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

Arnold J Toynbee

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

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee

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

Arnold J Toynbee

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

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee

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

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee

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

Arnold J Toynbee

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee Work

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

– Arnold J Toynbee

Arnold J Toynbee Society

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

Arnold J Toynbee Religion

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

– Arnold J Toynbee

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