32 ordspråk av Arnold Toynbee

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Arnold Toynbee föddes den 14 april 1889 och dog den 22 oktober 1975 - and social reformer.
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 I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.

 I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

 I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.

 It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

 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

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

 The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

 The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue

 The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

 The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.

 The right moment for starting on your next job is not tomorrow or next week; it is instanter, or in the American idiom, "right now."

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

 There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that "life is just one damned thing after another." human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.

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

 We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves


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