WednesdaySep 02, 2026
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Arnold Toynbee (August 23, 1852 - March 9, 1883) was an English economic historian also noted for his social commitment and desire to improve the living conditions of the working class.
There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another'.... Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
I don't believe a committee can write a book .... It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't believe it can write a book.
Apathy can only be overcome by enthusiasm.
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.
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