One 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 SpenglerFormerly 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.
Oswald SpenglerThrough money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Oswald SpenglerWhen 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