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Peace is a desire, war is a fact and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
Oswald Spengler
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Oswald Spengler
Age: 55 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: May 8
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Blankenburg/Harz
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
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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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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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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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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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Every Socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for Capitalism.
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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.
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Man makes history woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.
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We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.
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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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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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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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When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.
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We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
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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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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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