“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”
Arnold J. Toynbee
This quote is commonly attributed to Arnold J. Toynbee, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“Technology is, of course, only a long Greek name for a bag of tools; and we have to ask ourselves: What are the tools that count in this competition in the use of tools as means to power?”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“History, in the objective meaning of the word, is the process of change; in the subjective meaning, it is the study of how and why one situation changes into another.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“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 behind it.”
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“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Disputed“Life is our dictionary.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“You may delay, but time will not.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“You may be too cunning for one, but not for all.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source