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Top 10 Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quotes (2024 Update)

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “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.”

1. “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 Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

2. “The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults...”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “We are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new and unprecedented turn. 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.”

3. “We are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own efforts, to give history, in our case, some new and unprecedented turn. 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 Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “Societies, not states, are ‘the social atoms’ with which students of history have to deal.”

4. “Societies, not states, are ‘the social atoms’ with which students of history have to deal.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “The weak spot of religion is its ridiculousness.”

5. “The weak spot of religion is its ridiculousness.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “The difference between a humanist and a lunatic is in fact one of degree.”

6. “The difference between a humanist and a lunatic is in fact one of degree.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “A society, we may say, is confronted in the course of its life by a succession of problems which each member has to solve for itself as best it may. The presentation of each problem is a challenge to undergo an ordeal, and through this series of ordeals the members of the society progressively differentiate themselves from one another.”

7. “A society, we may say, is confronted in the course of its life by a succession of problems which each member has to solve for itself as best it may. The presentation of each problem is a challenge to undergo an ordeal, and through this series of ordeals the members of the society progressively differentiate themselves from one another.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “The sunsets and sunrises of civilization are inevitably separated by intervals of isolated darkness. The night that followed the Roman sunset was long and uncertain, and the turmoil it brought consumed countless man. But mankind itself did not yield. With its gaze fixed on a distant future, it persevered. Until the first rays of a new dawn at long last penetrated the horizon.”

8. “The sunsets and sunrises of civilization are inevitably separated by intervals of isolated darkness. The night that followed the Roman sunset was long and uncertain, and the turmoil it brought consumed countless man. But mankind itself did not yield. With its gaze fixed on a distant future, it persevered. Until the first rays of a new dawn at long last penetrated the horizon.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “In our unidentified society when it was united under the Achaemenian Empire we can trace the process of the peaceful ejection of the elements of culture intruded by Assyrian in the gradual replacement of the Akkadian language and cuneiform script by the Aramaic language and alphabet.”

9. “In our unidentified society when it was united under the Achaemenian Empire we can trace the process of the peaceful ejection of the elements of culture intruded by Assyrian in the gradual replacement of the Akkadian language and cuneiform script by the Aramaic language and alphabet.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee Quote: “Broadly speaking, however, Christianity is a universal church originating in a germ that was alien to the society in which it played its part, while Islam originated in a germ that was indigenous.”

10. “Broadly speaking, however, Christianity is a universal church originating in a germ that was alien to the society in which it played its part, while Islam originated in a germ that was indigenous.”

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

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