71 Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

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

All human work is imperfect, because human nature is and this intrinsic imperfection of human affairs cannot be overcome by procrastination.

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

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

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

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

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.

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