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

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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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