Arnold J Toynbee Famous Quotes
"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."
"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."
"History teaches us that when a barbarian race confronts a sleeping culture, the barbarian always wins."
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
"America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair."
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
Arnold J Toynbee Quotations
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.
Theodore Roosevelt
Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.
Ayn Rand
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Socrates
All the resources we need are in the mind.
Theodore Roosevelt
"There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else."
James Thurber
"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work."
Johann von Neumann
"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth. We did not weave the web of life We are merely a strand in it. What we do with the web, we do to ourselves..."
Chief Seattle
"How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm I thank thee, night for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this."
Lord Byron
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer