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Experiences QUOTES

Experiences QUOTES

1 " The art of handling university students is to make oneself appear, and this almost ostentatiously, to be treating them as adults... "

― Arnold Joseph Toynbee , Experiences

2 " Human nature presents human minds with a puzzle which they have not yet solved and may never succeed in solving, for all that we can tell. The dichotomy of a human being into 'soul' and 'body' is not a datum of experience. No one has ever been, or ever met, a living human soul without a body... Someone who accepts—as I myself do, taking it on trust—the present-day scientific account of the Universe may find it impossible to believe that a living creature, once dead, can come to life again; but, if he did entertain this belief, he would be thinking more 'scientifically' if he thought in the Christian terms of a psychosomatic resurrection than if he thought in the shamanistic terms of a disembodied spirit. "

― Arnold Joseph Toynbee , Experiences