Arnold J. Toynbee's Profile
Brief about Arnold J. Toynbee: By info that we know Arnold J. Toynbee was born at 1970-01-01. And also Arnold J. Toynbee is British Historian.
Some Arnold J. Toynbee's quotes. Goto "Arnold J. Toynbee's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Freedom, God, NatureOf 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.
Tags: History, Moral, StateCivilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
Tags: DieApathy 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.
Tags: Plan, Second, StormCivilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Tags: Condition, History, MovementSooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Tags: God, Power, WhetherThe 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.
Tags: Human, Society, TodayThe 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.
Tags: Between, Happens, IslamI can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Tags: EvilI do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Tags: Die, Product, WillsIt 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.
Tags: Goal, Life, TrueTo be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Tags: Able, Intelligence, LastHistory 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.
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