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“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.” quote by Oswald Spengler — Download Open image

“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.”

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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…

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“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 progress-optimism, he heaps upon it the flowers of literature, he crawls behind the shelter of ideals so as not to see anything. But impermanence, the birth and the passing, is the form of all that is…

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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 for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going…

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When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing…

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“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…

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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.

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“The primitive man experiences “soul,” first in other men and then in himself, as a Numen, just as he knows numina of the outer…

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Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

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“At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful — now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne…

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It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world,…

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“The man makes History, the woman is History.”

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“Time erodes us all.”

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If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even…

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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more…

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The intoxication of the faro drinker only shows itself at first by an increase in noise which is only deafening, and finally by a…

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Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right…

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...we must strike a balance so that the protection of our irreplaceable heritage becomes as important as its use. The price of economic growth…

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If we wish to influence our own life in a particular direction, which is constantly threatened by the danger of the emergence of alien…

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I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. Then, and before physical deterioration obtrudes, I shall go on some last wilderness trip to a place I have known and loved.…

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The rapid deterioration of education has been recognized as a national problem for the past several years. Consequently, American businesses must meet the immediate…

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The human race has today the means for annihilating itself--either in a fit of complete lunacy, i.e., in a big war...or by the careless…

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