Quotes by Oswald Spengler

“I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind that we all unconsciously practise when we try to "figure to ourselves" the stirrings of our own ...”

“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 tal...”

“I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting ones eyes to the overwhelming multitude of facts, the drama of a number of mighty Cultures, each sp...”

“Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as spiritual culture advances, this myth-forming power is shed. In reality it is the exact opposite, ...”

“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 s...”

“This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of...”

“Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. He wraps it up in rose-coloured progress-optimism, he heaps upon it the flowers of literature, he...”

“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...”

“We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.”

“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.”

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

“We Germans will never produce another Goethe but we may produce another Caesar.”