Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Oswald Spengler
Age: 55 †
Born: 1880
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: May 8
Historian
Mathematician
Philosopher
Sociologist
Writer
Blankenburg/Harz
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler
Figures
Wise
Either
Enough
Men
Intimidating
Marry
Clever
Figure
More quotes by Oswald Spengler
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.
Oswald Spengler
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
Oswald Spengler
Every action alters the soul of the doer.
Oswald Spengler
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Oswald Spengler
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
Oswald Spengler
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.
Oswald Spengler
Optimism is cowardice.
Oswald Spengler
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.
Oswald Spengler
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.
Oswald Spengler
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
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.
Oswald Spengler
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
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.
Oswald Spengler
When three liberals get together they form a new party that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the 'agenda' an 'amendment of the statutes.
Oswald Spengler
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.
Oswald Spengler
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.
Oswald Spengler
Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.
Oswald Spengler
If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
Oswald Spengler
Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness
Oswald Spengler
We Germans will never produce another Goethe, but we may produce another Caesar.
Oswald Spengler
