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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
Tags: action, you, history, life

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Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Tags: always, power, man, god
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Tags: harbor, movement, civilization, history
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.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Tags: responsibility, freedom, god, nature
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
Tags: important, true, way, life
I do not believe that civilizations have to die because civilization is not an organism. It is a product of wills.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
Tags: product, civilization, die, believe
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