Arnold Toynbee

"To have a friend is to understand the meaning of unconditional love."

"Knowledge without wisdom is like a ship without a compass."

"Every ending is a new beginning."

"The purpose of education is to create free human beings."

"Success is not final, and failure is not fatal."

"The human spirit is capable of achieving the seemingly impossible."

"The twentieth century will be remembered chiefly, not as an age of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in which human society dared to think of the welfare of the whole human race as a practicable objective."

"The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become masters of the bomb."

"A charge of historical facts cannot be made without recognizing that the past has been a history of suffering."

"History does not repeat itself. Historians repeat each other."

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

"To be able to fill the leisure that culture leaves open is almost the last test of a gentleman."

"In a world in transition, we need people who are willing to look upon the universe as a whole."

"The purpose of life is not to have a good time. The purpose of life is to matter."

"As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood."

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

"The only way to understand history is to understand that it is not inevitable."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, but it is also the first refuge of the idealist."

"The great tragic fact about the industrialization of the West is that it has made material wealth possible for all, but spiritual poverty almost inevitable for many."

"Nations do not pursue their own interests; they pursue the interests of those who control their governments."

"The growth of the human mind has always been the most reliable indicator of cultural advancement."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"An expert is someone who has made all the mistakes that can be made in his field."

"The universal spirit evolves through the particular expressions of individual souls."

"Time is the most cruel of all the elements in the human condition."

"The West has increasingly tried to make itself the mother country of all the world's higher cultures."

"God is to man as man is to the animals."

"History is littered with the wreckage of civilizations that thought themselves too big to fail."

"The mission of the twentieth century will be to explore the interior of the human soul."