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
Oswald Spengler quotes about
democracy intellect destroyed
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
multitudes
What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
transition cosmic tension
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
germany may produce
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.