"History is a vision of God's creation on…" — Arnold J. Toynbee

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— Arnold J. Toynbee

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43 Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait…
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in…
The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's…
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the…
Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them, they have ensured that I shall work hard, but…
The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot…
It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending…
Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or…
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and…
Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of…
Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in…

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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage,… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine
I get how devastating high taxes are to job creation. — Michele Bachmann
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector... and someone… — Michele Bachmann
A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is… — Alain Badiou
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose. — James A. Baldwin
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of… — Ansel Adams
Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights… — Saint Basil
Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then… — Gary Bauer
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic… — Bob Beauprez
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But,… — Bob Beauprez

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