Famous quotes by Historians

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

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

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

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The equation of religion with belief is rather recent"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"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"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"A life which does not go into action is a failure"

Arnold J. Toynbee, Historian

"The susceptibility of the average modern to pictorial suggestion enables advertising to exploit his lessened power of judgment"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"The repudiation of the primacy of understanding means the repudiation of the norms of judgment as well, and hence the abandonment of all ethical standards"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"It is the goal of the American university to be the brains of the republic"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Culture means control over nature"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

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