Oswald Spengler
Oswald SpenglerCapitalism is unstoppable. Every socialist outbreak only blazes new paths for capitalism.
The Constitution of the US is less of a document than a commitment. It matters little what one writes into it. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.
Free-thinking is finally permitted today, 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.
Freedom of thought is a freedom which, formerly denied, is now 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.
The Future is the possible and the past is the actualized. The actualizing itself, the center-of-gravity and the center-of-meaning of life, we call the present.
History is made by man while woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: It runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal or human, through all short-lived cultures. It is primary, unchanging, everlasting, maternal, plantlike, and cultureless. If we look back we find that it is synonymous with life itself.
History is that form which one's imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to one's own life, which one thereby invests with a deeper reality.
History is the annals of great suffering, the opposite of what the common man wants of life: Health, longevity, amusement, comfort-'happiness.
Life is the form in which the actualizing (i.e. Making manifest) of the possible (i.e.The soul) is accomplished.
The Media is intellectual artillery bombarding us, making impossible the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the fact that under a pure democratic disguise, the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.
