[A]n der Wirklichkeit der Geschichte, scheitert jede…

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

“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

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

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

“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

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

— Oswald Spengler

When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

— Oswald Spengler

If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

— Oswald Spengler

“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

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

— Oswald Spengler

“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

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

“The man makes History, the woman is History.”

— Oswald Spengler

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

“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.”

— Oswald Spengler