Oswald Spengler Quotes

• 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  Children, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Perspectives of world history”

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• 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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  Libertad, Pensamiento, Personas

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• Hemos nacido en este tiempo y debemos seguir valientemente el camino hasta el final destinado. No hay otro camino. Nuestro deber es aferrarnos a la posición perdida, sin esperanza, sin rescate, como aquel soldado romano cuyos huesos se encontraron delante de una puerta en Pompeya, que, durante la erupción del Vesubio, murió en su puesto porque se olvidaron de relevarle. Eso es grandeza. Eso es ser un pura sangre. El fin honorable es lo único que no se le puede arrebatar a un hombre.

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  Taken, Mean, Greatness

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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

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  Democracy, Intellect, Destroyers

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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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  War, Mean, Race

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• 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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  Army, Play, Soldier

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

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  Civilization, Soldier, Lasts

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• ¿Qué es la verdad? Para la multitud, lo que lee y oye continuamente.

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  Multitudes

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.394, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.

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  Lying, Heart, Winter

  Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”

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• 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 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  Drama, Views, Media

  "The Decline of the West (Volume II)". Book by Oswald Spengler, 1928.

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• Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

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  Eugenics, Class, Socialism

  Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1

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• Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars.

  Oswald Spengler

  Fuerte, Guerra, Hombres

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• The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world history means, however, to know human beings as they have been and always will be. There is a vast difference, which most people will never comprehend, between viewing future history as it will be and viewing it as one might like it to be. Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

  Oswald Spengler

  War, Mean, Differences

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• Optimism is cowardice.

  Oswald Spengler

  Optimism, Cowardice

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.56, Routledge

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• Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

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  War, Desire, Facts

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• Every action alters the soul of the doer.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Doers

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• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

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  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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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  Eye, Men, Suffering

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• 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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  Writing, Important, Matter

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• Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

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  Christian, Grandmother, Theology

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “Hour Decision”

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• 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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  Leader, Movement, Facts

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.367, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Este es nuestro propósito: dar el mayor sentido posible a esta vida que se nos ha concedido... vivir de tal manera que podamos sentirnos orgullosos de nosotros mismos, actuar de tal manera que una parte de nosotros siga viviendo. Este es nuestro propósito: hacer lo más significativa posible esta vida que se nos ha concedido... vivir de tal manera que podamos estar orgullosos de nosotros mismos, actuar de tal manera que una parte de nosotros siga viviendo.

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  Meaningful, Purpose, May

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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• 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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  Past, Links, Life Is

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Aphorisms”

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

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  Race, Too Much

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “Hour Decision”

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• In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Clever, Cities

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.25, Oxford University Press, USA

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