Arnold J. Toynbee

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent…

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

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization…

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things…

Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power…

A life which does not go into action is a failure…

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off…

Of the twenty-two civilizations that have appeared in history, nineteen of them collapsed when…

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

History is a vision of God’s creation on the move…

The human race’s prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers…