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I maintain, then, that scientific psychology (and, it may be added, the psychology of the same kind ...

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The Decline of the West

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

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . ...

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The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort -- "happiness." He wh...

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Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerou...

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The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar w...

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

Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...

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The Decline of the West

I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting on...

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Man was, and is, too shallow and cowardly to endure the fact of the mortality of everything living. ...

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Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life

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

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Oswald Spengler

Philosopher

Born: 1880-05-29

Died: 1936-05-08

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler (29 May 1880 – 8 May 1936) was a German historian, philosopher and political writer, whose magnum opus is Der Untergang des Abendlandes (The Decline of the West), the first volume of which was published in the summer of 1918 and by 1926 had gone through thirty printings.More