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
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.
hero leader world
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.
reading creative be-creative
One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.
practice psychology crafts
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.
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.