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Arnold J. Toynbee has 41 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Write regularly, day in and day out, at whatever times of day you find that you write best. Don't wait till you…
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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…
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The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet…
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History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff -…
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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…
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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…
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It is already becoming clear that a chapter which had a Western beginning will have to have an Indian ending if it…
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Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and,…
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Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.
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Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to…
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Love's way of dealing with us is different from conscience's way. Conscience commands; love inspires. What we do out of love, we…
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Human dignity can be achieved only in the field of ethics, and ethical achievement is measured by the degree in which our…
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The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power.
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With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory…
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Many people correctly make the point that our only hope is to turn to God. For example, Charles Lindbergh, who said that…
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Unless man has the wit and the grit to build his civilization on something better than material power, it is surely idle…
— Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.
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Material power that is not counterbalanced by adequate spiritual power, that is, by love and wisdom, is a curse
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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The making of money, the accumulation of material power, is not all there is to living...and the man who misses this truth…
— Edward Bok
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A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven"…
— George William Russell
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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others!…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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