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• Long, 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Men, Long Ago

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.

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  Path, Outbreaks, Socialist

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.390, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Germany, May, Produce

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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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• 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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  Hero, Leader, World

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

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• 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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  School, Mean, Leader

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

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  Peace, War, Aggravation

  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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• 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  Honor, Enemy, Doe

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson 1880 (1928). “The decline of the West”

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• 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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  Eye, One Day, Portraits

  Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”

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

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  Philosophy, Defence, Bottom

  Oswald Spengler (1926). “The Decline of the West...: Form and actuality”

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• 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  War, Dark, Race

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• 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.

  Oswald Spengler

  Wise, Clever, Men

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• 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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  Giving, Wish, Logic

  Oswald Spengler (1942). “The Hour of Decision, Part One: Germany and World-historical Evolution”

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• The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and the philosopher (who is in this matter a layman too) imagine, substantially unalterable, but subject like every art to unnoticed changes form epoch to epoch. The development of the great arts ought never to be treated without an (assuredly not unprofitable) side-glance at contemporary mathematics.

  Oswald Spengler

  Art, Math, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1950). “Form and actuality”

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

  Oswald Spengler

  Expectations

  Oswald Spengler (2016). “Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932): A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life”, p.11, Routledge

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• History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.

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  Bears, Extensions

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• 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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  Men, Knives, Soul

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”

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• It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.

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  Country, Land, Cities

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.246, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

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  Practice, Psychology, Crafts

  "The Decline of the West: Form and actuality".

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• 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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  Men, Cities, Lasts

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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

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  World

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.177, Oxford University Press, USA

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

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  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Oswald Spengler (1967). “Selected Essays”

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• Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

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  Transition, Cosmic, Tension

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1961). “The Decline of the West...: Perspectives of world-history”

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• History is that form 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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  Reality, History, Imagination

  Oswald Spengler (1961). “Form and actuality”

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