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> # Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.

[Arnold Joseph Toynbee](https://quotesby.net/Arnold-Joseph-Toynbee)\#3

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## More from Arnold Joseph Toynbee

1. > The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

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2. > 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,…

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3. > So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.

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