Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spenglerwas a German historian and philosopher of history whose interests included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West, published in 1918 and 1922, covering all of world history. Spengler's civilization model postulates that any civilization is a superorganism with a limited and predictable lifespan...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth29 May 1880
CountryGermany
spiritual soul doers
Every action alters the soul of the doer.
eye one-day gone
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.
leader facts movement
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.
war long soul
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
bears extensions
History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.
transition cosmic tension
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
giving wish logic
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
christian grandmother theology
Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.
drama views media
To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) 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 enslavement that has ever existed
wise clever men
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.
reading creative be-creative
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.
expectations
We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.
philosophy defence bottom
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.
germany may produce
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.