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Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee CH (/ˈtɔɪnbi/; 14 April 1889 – 22 October 1975) was a British historian, philosopher of history, research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and the University of London and author of numerous books. Toynbee in the 1918–1950 period was a leading specialist on international affairs.

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The world's greatest need. . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between mother and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller. . . to make social life a practical possibility. Confidence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust.

Buyer, Children, Husband, Mistrust, Mother, Wife

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.

Believe, Goal, Inspirational, Motivational, Paradoxical, True

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm.

Apathy, Enthusiasm, Overcome, Overcoming

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

Men, Glorifying God, Ends, Glorify, God, True

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Action, Essence, Field, Fields

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

Characteristics, Community, Historical, Racial

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Characterised, Freedom, Political, Power, Stage

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

Dog, Small Rooms, America, Tail, Large

Our western science is a child of moral virtues; and it must now become the father of further moral virtues if its extraordinary material triumphs in our time are not to bring human history to an abrupt, unpleasant and discreditable end.

Children, Father, Science, Child, Become

The only real struggle in the history of the world. . . is between the vested interest and social justice.

History, Justice, Real, Struggle

We human beings do have some genuine freedom of choice and therefore some effective control over our own destinies. I am not a determinist. But I also believe that the decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. More often than not, it will turn out to be some choice made relatively far back in the past.

Freedom, Believe, Past, Turn, Genuine, Control

The course of human history consists of a series of encounters between individual human beings and God in which each man and woman or child, in turn, is challenged by God to make his free choice between doing God's will and refusing to do it.

Children, Men, Choices, Encounters, Course, Free

There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.

Gratitude, International, Politics, Thing

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.

Historical, Intellectual, Life, Nothing, Use

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

Beach, Cities, Land, Lie, Lying, Taken

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.

Animal, Animals, Cynical, Domesticated, Plants, Population

I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). . . . I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

Believe, Concept, Industrialized, Moral, Religious, Sacrifice

My advice to any traveler who is traveling in order to learn would be: 'Fight tooth and nail to be permitted to travel in what is technically the least efficient way. '

Fighting, Order, Advice, Fight, Technically, Tooth

Civilizations, I believe, come to birth and proceed to grow by successfully responding to successive challenges. They break down and go to pieces if and when a challenge confronts them that they fail to meet.

Believe, Challenges, Civilization, Grow, Ifs And, Pieces

Nothing fails like success when you rely on it too much.

Too Much, Failing, Rely, Fails, Success, Like

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