33 ordspråk av Arnold Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee föddes den 14 april 1889 och dog den 22 oktober 1975 - and social reformer.
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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that "life is just one damned thing after another." human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.

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.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Stad och Land

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

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.

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.

Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.

The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.

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.

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

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

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