Oswald Spengler Quotes
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The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
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Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
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If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.
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I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.
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There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
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The principle of inorganic equality was for them crucial. Men of the stamp of Jahn and Arndt had no notion that it was Equality that had first sounded the cry of 'Vive la nation' in the September massacres of 1792.
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To the new International that is now in the irreversible process of preparation we can contribute the ideas of worldwide organization and the world state; the English can suggest the idea of worldwide exploitation and trusts; the French can offer nothing. ...
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 104–06
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It is the heritage of anguished centuries, and it distinguishes us from all other people-us, the youngest and last people of our culture. ...
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Optimism is cowardice.
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And now to the decisive factor: our boundless urge to follow and serve, to worship anyone or anything, to believe blindly and with doglike loyalty, all advice to the contrary notwithstanding.
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We are socialists. Let us hope that it will not have been in vain.
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Among the political attitudes that prevail in Germany today, only socialism has the potentiality of inner value and integrity.
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The meaning of socialism is that life is dominated not by the contrast of rich and poor but by rank as determined by achievement and ability. That is our kind of freedom: freedom from the economic capriciousness of the individual.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02