Arnold J. Toynbee

Quotes by Arnold J. Toynbee

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Historian · British · 1889–1975

British historian (1889–1975)

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“History [is] a vision of God's creation on the move.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee

“Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we diagnose each case, in extremis or post mortem, we invariably fi...”
— Arnold J. Toynbee