Oswald Spengler Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
-
We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
-
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
-
The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
-
I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
-
Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
-
I am really precise about who I want to work with and, no matter the timeline, I push to get what I think would be cool.
-
I don't think good and evil are polarized.
-
If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
-
The epic story of the West is the development in the 19th century of a mass prosperity the world had never seen and its near-disappearance in one nation after another in the 20th.
-
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
-
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
-
One must act in painting as in life, directly.
-
Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
-
Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send button, and you are publishing to the world.
-
I don't know anything about music.
-
The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
-
One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
-
If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
-
What we demand is integrity and honesty of the research that is rendered.
-
A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.
-
Well if you reduce religion to social work, so does USAID produce...do all that. Actually, a secular organization, actually rather more convincingly. Most of the great philanthropist of the united states have been atheists...doesn't prove that atheism is correct.
-
The fault of many of our artists and intellectuals lies in their original sin: they are not true revolutionaries. We can try to graft the elm tree so that it will bear pears, but at the same time we must plant pear trees. New generations will come that will be free of original sin.
-
The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
