Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes
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![The Intoxication of Victory. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/10/41710A-the-intoxication-of-victory-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
The Intoxication of Victory.
![Man cannot live by technology alone. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/94/40794A-man-cannot-live-by-technology-alone-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Man cannot live by technology alone.
![Familiarity breeds acquiescence as well as contempt. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/32/30832A-familiarity-breeds-acquiescence-as-well-as-contempt-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Familiarity breeds acquiescence as well as contempt.
![Technology: the invention, manufacture, and use of tools. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/95/40795A-technology-the-invention-manufacture-and-use-tools-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Technology: the invention, manufacture, and use of tools.
![The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/32/42332A-the-supreme-accomplishment-is-to-blur-line-between-work-play-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
![To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/54/23554A-to-be-able-to-fill-leisure-intelligently-is-last-product-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
![America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/50/25950A-america-is-a-large-friendly-dog-very-small-room-every-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
![Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/36/28436A-compassion-is-the-desire-that-moves-individual-self-widen-scope-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
![Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. No known civilization has ever reached the goal of civilization itself. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/15/28215A-civilization-as-we-know-it-is-movement-not-condition-voyage-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. No known civilization has ever reached the goal of civilization itself.
![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 quote.](/img/q/91/31791A-it-is-a-paradoxical-but-profoundly-true-important-principle-life-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
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.
![Now 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 which they fail to meet. - Arnold J. Toynbee quote.](/img/q/20/27820A-now-civilizations-i-believe-come-to-birth-proceed-grow-by-arnold-j-toynbee.png)
Now 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 which they fail to meet.