“Let a man be either a hero or a saint. In between lies, not wisdom, but banality.” — 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
You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live he may cling to life as an individual, but as a… — 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
One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation,… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while… — 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
“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
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such… — 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
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
