“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.”

About Arnold J. Toynbee

Historian • English

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was a renowned English historian whose monumental 12-volume work, 'A Study of History,' explored the rise and fall of civilizations. He proposed that civilizations thrive by successfully responding...