Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff -… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United States… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The West has never been all of the world that matters. The West has not been the only actor on the stage… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it is not… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
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;… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Religion holds the solution to all problems of human relationship, whether they are between parents and children or nation and nation. Sooner or later,… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist.… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
