Arnold J. Toynbee Quotations

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a British historian and the nephew of Arnold Toynbee.

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So-called racial characteristics are not really racial at all but are due to the historical experiences of the communities in question.
- A Study of History (1934–1961)

The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.
- A Study of History (1934-1961)

We shall have to share out the fruits of technology among the whole of mankind. The notion that the direct and immediate producers of the fruits of technology have a proprietary right to these fruits will have to be forgotten. After all, who is the producer? Man is a social animal, and the immediate producer has been helped to produce by the whole structure of society, beginning with his own education.
- Surviving the Future (1971), Oxford University Press, 1972, p. 95

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.
- The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose (1976)

Toynbee predicted: "At the close of this century, the world would be dominated by the West, but that in the 21st century 'India will conquer her conquerors.'"
- Swami Prabhavananda, The Spiritual Heritage of India: A Clear Summary of Indian Philosophy and Religion (1979)