More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

  1. Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
  2. The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have be…
  3. Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when they reached the moral state the United Stat…
  4. The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
  5. 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 tha…
  6. The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single …
  7. 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.
  8. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.

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