Arnold J. Toynbee
Historian
1889-04-14 – 1975-10-22
Arnold J. Toynbee was a British historian known for A Study of History.
Books by Arnold J. Toynbee
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A Study of History
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Civilization on trial
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Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
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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.
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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.
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A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
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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.
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
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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.
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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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.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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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.
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We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
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Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.
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