“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full… — 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 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
