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Category: Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold J. Toynbee

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.

God, Man, Always

Arnold J. Toynbee

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Civilization, Movement

Arnold J. Toynbee

History is a vision of God’s creation on the move.

God, Vision, Creation

Arnold J. Toynbee

Of 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.

Moral, Now, United

Arnold J. Toynbee

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Product, Civilization

Arnold J. Toynbee

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.

Freedom, God, Responsibility

Arnold J. Toynbee

The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

Accomplishment, Play, Blur

Arnold J. Toynbee

A life which does not go into action is a failure.

Life, Action, Which

Arnold J. Toynbee

Anxiety and conscience are a powerful pair of dynamos. Between them they have ensured that I shall work hard but they cannot ensure that one shall work at anything worthwhile.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first an ideal which takes the imagination by storm and sec ond a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.