Oswald Spengler quotes

“When 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

“The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.” – Oswald Spengler

“Optimism is cowardice.” – Oswald Spengler

“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.” – Oswald Spengler

“When three liberals get together they form a new party; that is their idea of individualism. They never join a bowling club without introducing as part of the ‘agenda’ an ‘amendment of the statutes.” – Oswald Spengler

“All world-improvers are Socialists. And consequently there are no Classical world-improvers.” – Oswald Spengler