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> [If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/if-few-can-stand-a-long-war-without-deterioration-of-soul-none-can/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

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## More by Oswald Spengler

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/to-day-a-democrat-of-the-old-school-would-demand-not-freedom-for-the/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/man-was-and-is-too-shallow-and-cowardly-to-endure-the-fact-of-the/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/to-day-we-live-so-cowed-under-the-bombardment-of-this-intellectual/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/when-three-liberals-get-together-they-form-a-new-party-that-is-their/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/world-history-is-the-history-of-the-great-cultures-and-peoples-are/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/socialism-is-nothing-but-the-capitalism-of-the-lower-classes/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/when-the-englishman-speaks-of-national-wealth-he-means-the-number-of/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/if-few-can-stand-a-long-war-without-deterioration-of-soul-none-can/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/the-primitive-man-experiences-soul-first-in-other-men-and-then-in/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/those-who-talk-too-much-about-race-no-longer-have-it-in-them/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/at-the-beginning-a-man-was-wealthy-because-he-was-powerful-now-he-is/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/it-is-the-late-city-that-first-defies-the-land-contradicts-nature-in/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [“The man makes History, the woman is History.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/the-man-makes-history-the-woman-is-history/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/it-doesn-t-really-matter-what-one-writes-into-a-constitution-the/)

[Oswald Spengler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oswald-spengler/)

> [“Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oswald-spengler/once-upon-a-time-freedom-and-necessity-were-identical-but-now-what-is/)

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