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
At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace. — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
