The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Arnold J. Toynbee
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.
Arnold J. Toynbee
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
Arnold J. Toynbee
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J. Toynbee