“As human beings, we are endowed with this freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.”
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.
“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“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“Civilization, as we know it, is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbour.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee Primary source“The most obvious way of reconciling oneself to death is to make sure of enjoying life before death snatches it from us.”
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“All our science lacks a human side.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“My God what would a man do with a woman like that except worship her?”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.”
— John F. Kennedy Primary source