History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
History is that form which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“What the Greek called Kosmos was the image of a world that is not continuous but complete. Inevitably, then, the Greek man… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“The inner history of the Magian religion ends with Justinian’s time, as truly as that of the Faustian ends with Charles V… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“It is life, not the individual, that is conscienceless. The essential, therefore, is to understand the time for which one is born.… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in rose-coloured… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
“World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.” — Oswald Spengler Copy Share
