Quotes by Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

Christian

Grandmother

Theology

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.

Knives

Men

Soul

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Doers

Soul

Spiritual

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Civilization

Lasts

Soldier

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.

Clever

Men

Wise

It doesn’t really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Important

Matter

Writing

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.

Country

Long Ago

Men

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.

Animal

Men

Running

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.

Eye

One Day

Portraits

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.

Doe

Enemy

Honor

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Animal

Christian

Civilization

Clever

Cosmic

Country

Cowardice

Democracy

Desire

Destroyers

Differences

Doe

Doers

Drama

Enemy

Eye

Facts

Germany

Grandmother

Honor

Ideas

Important

Intellect

Knives

Lasts

Leader

Life Is

Links

Long Ago

Matter

May

Mean

Media

Men

Numbers

One Day

Optimism

Party

Past

Portraits

Produce

Race

Running

School

Soldier

Soul

Spiritual

Strong

Suffering

Tension

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Quotes by Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler

Christian theology is the grandmother of Bolshevism.

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.

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

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.

It doesn’t really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

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.

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.

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.

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