32 ordspråk av Arnold Toynbee
Arnold Toynbee
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God
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The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
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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
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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.
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The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
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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."
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The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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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.
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To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
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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 breeding of ourselves
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