The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Oswald Spengler
- 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.
- 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.
- Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
- 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.
- Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.
- Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
- What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.
- Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.
- 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.
- 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 (1880-1936) was a German historian and philosopher known for his seminal work “The Decline of the West” (Der Untergang des Abendlandes), published in two volumes between 1918 and 1922. Spengler posited that civilizations follow a predictable cycle of growth and decay, likening cultures to living organisms that experience youth, maturity, old age, and death.
Educated in mathematics, science, and philosophy, Spengler’s interdisciplinary approach enabled him to draw broad comparisons across different historical epochs and cultures. Despite the controversy surrounding his deterministic view of history and cultural pessimism, his ideas significantly influenced intellectual thought in the early 20th century.
Spengler’s impact extended beyond academia, shaping the discourse on Western civilization’s future during a tumultuous period marked by World War I and the interwar years. He died in Munich, leaving behind a legacy that continues to provoke debate among historians and philosophers.
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