Arnold J. Toynbee Quote

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.


The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose (1976).


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.

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.

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.

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.