in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
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.
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Quotes by Arnold Joseph Toynbee
On this showing, the nature of the breakdowns of civilizations can be summed up in three points: a failure of creative power in the minority, an answering withdrawal of mimesis on the part of the majority, and a consequent loss of social unity in the society as a whole.
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Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.
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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.
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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.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Job)
The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
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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 find that the cause of death has been either War or Class or some combination of the two. To date, these two plagues have been deadly enough, in partnership, to kill off nineteen out of twenty representatives of this recently evolved species of human society; but, up to now, the deadliness of these scourges has had a saving limit.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
We can think about the human person - that is the only type person that we know - like a wave that gets up and wound down, or to a bubble that takes shape and then burst, on the surface of the "immortal sea". As a wave or a bubble, the human person is ephemeral.
The person, than lives and dies in a psychosomatic organism on this planet, could be a manifestation of the eternal spiritual truth.
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