Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet. — 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 to end in self-destruction of the human race. At this supremely dangerous moment in human history , the only way of salvation is the ancient Hindu way. Here we have the attitude and spirit that can… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share
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
