Top 50 Oswald Spengler Quotes

#1. The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live
he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.

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#2. We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.

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#3. The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.

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#4. Unalert yet sometimes suffused through and through by an inward light, is characteristic of the primitive and of the child (and also of those moments of religious and artistic inspiration that occur ever less and less often as a Culture grows older) right

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#5. One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

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#6. It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

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#7. Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

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#8. Nature is the shape in which the man of higher Cultures synthesizes and interprets the immediate impressions of his senses. History is that from which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.

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#9. To Goethe again we owe the profound saying: "the mathematician is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the beauty of the true.

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#10. History is direction - but Nature is extension - ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

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#11. Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

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#12. Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

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

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#14. By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.

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#15. Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.

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#16. All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.

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#17. We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

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#18. One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be - though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain - because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

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#19. 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 fulfil their Destinies.

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

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#21. What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

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#22. I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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#23. You are caught in the current of unceasing change. Your life is a ripple in it. Every moment of your conscious life links the infinite past with the infinite future. Take part in both and you will not find the present empty.

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#24. When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

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#25. Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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#26. And the National Socialists believe that they can afford to ignore the world or oppose it, and build their castles-in-the-air without creating a possibly silent, but very palpable reaction from abroad.

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#27. The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

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#28. A thinker is a person whose part it is to symbolize time according to his vision and understanding. He has no choice; he thinks as he has to think.

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#29. Optimism is cowardice.

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#30. One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.

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#31. Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

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#32. Suddenly all those individuals who yesterday felt that "we" meant only their families, their professions, or perhaps their communities, become men of the nation. Their emotions and thoughts, their egos, that "something" within them, all are transformed: they have become historical.

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#33. That there is, besides a necessity of cause and effect - which I may call the logic of space - another necessity, an organic necessity in life, that of Destiny - the logic of time - is a fact of the deepest inward certainty,

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#34. The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

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#35. Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.

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#36. Every action alters the soul of the doer.

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#37. 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 changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.

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#38. Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.

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#39. Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

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#40. At the beginning a man was wealthy because he was powerful - now he is powerful because he has money. Intellect reaches the throne only when money puts it there. Democracy is the completed equating of money with political power.

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#41. There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

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#42. When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.

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#43. If you are clever enough to figure out what men want, you are either too wise to marry them or too intimidating for them to marry you.

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#44. If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.

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#45. Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

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#46. Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact, and if the White race decides to wage it no longer, the dark ones will, and will become the masters of the world.

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#47. A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

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#48. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

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#49. The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort
"happiness." He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.

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#50. Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

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