The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be.… — 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
