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 SpenglerThe common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-โhappiness.โ 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 SpenglerOne day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be โ though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain โ because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.
Oswald SpenglerWhen the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.
Oswald SpenglerTo-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.
Oswald Spengler