Expectations Quote by Oswald Spengler Download Open image “We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.” — Oswald Spengler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expectations History
History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
We learn to think of history as something that has already happened, to other people. Our own moment, filled as it is with minutiae… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our view of history diminishes the reality of the past. We concentrate on the historic event as something that has happened, and in so… — Ian Mortimer Copy Share Image
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I think people in general have neglected to learn about history. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing. — Sting Copy Share Image
History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes. — David Weinberger 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
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image