Oswald Spengler

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Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler. German historian. Philosopher of history. Polymath. Political writer. Author of Der Untergang des Abendlandes. 1880–1936.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: kolovoz 2018.

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  1. By understanding the world I mean being equal to the world. It is the hard reality of living that is the essential, not the concept of life, that the ostrich philosophy of idealism propounds.

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  2. 30. sij

    which in the Classical world was completely lacking. In this demand there is an element—quite unconscious—of desiring to shepherd the masses, as the object of party politics, into the newspaper’s power area.

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  3. 30. sij

    and ears. At that moment the needle of public opinion swings round to the stronger pole. Everybody convinces himself at once of the new truth, & regards himself awakened out of error. With the political press is bound up the need of universal school education,

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  4. 30. sij

    What the dynamism of our Press wants is permanent effectiveness. It must keep men’s minds continuously under its influence. Its arguments are overthrown as soon as the advantage of financial power passes over to the counter-arguments & brings these still oftener to men’s eyes

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  5. 27. sij

    The danger is so great, for every individual, every class, every people, that it is pathetic to delude oneself. Time cannot be stopped; there is absolutely no way back, no wise renunciation to be made. Only dreamers believe in ways out. Optimism is cowardice.

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  6. 27. sij

    Without the reader’s observing it, the paper, and himself with it, changes masters. Here also money triumphs and forces the free spirits into its service. No tamer has his animals more under his power.

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  7. 27. sij

    and the bourgeoisie cried out that the freedom of the spirit was in danger. Now the multitude placidly goes its way; it has definitively won for itself this freedom. But in the background, unseen, the new forces are fighting one another by buying the press.

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  8. 27. sij

    In the contests of today tactics consists in depriving the opponent of this weapon. In the unsophisticated infancy of its power the newspaper suffered from official censorship which the champions of tradition wielded in self defense,

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  9. 24. sij

    Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.

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  10. 22. sij

    Its bases are irrefutable for just so long as money is available to maintain them intact. What the dynamism of our Press wants is permanent effectiveness. It must keep men’s minds continuously under its influence.

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  11. 22. sij

    which alone matters for effects and successes in the fact world, is today a product of the Press. What the Press wills, is true. Its commanders evoke, transform, interchange truths. Three weeks of press work, and the truth is acknowledged by everybody.

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  12. 22. sij

    What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears. A forlorn little drop may settle somewhere and collect grounds on which to determine “the truth”— but what it obtains is just its truth. The other, the public truth of the moment,

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  13. 22. sij

    New in February 2020: a republishing of Anton Mirko Koktanek's standard biography of Oswald . "Oswald Spengler: Life and Work." 560 pages + 16 image pages. To read the table of contents and order the book directly from the publisher:

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  14. 22. sij

    This is as true of today as it was for the Gracchan age, and in all countries. Fifty percent of mass leaders are procurable by money, office, or opportunities to “come in on the ground floor,” and with them they bring their whole party.

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  15. 22. sij

    All radical (i.e., poor) parties necessarily become the tools of the money powers, the Equites, the Bourse. Theoretically their enemy is capital, but practically they attack, not the Bourse, but Tradition on behalf of the Bourse.

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  16. 20. sij

    into the horseshoe arch of Moorish-Norman architecture. So also the Apollinian art of the Doric spring—whose first efforts are practically lost to us—doubtless took over Egyptian elements to a very large extent, & by and through these came to its own proper symbolism.5

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  17. 20. sij

    the Grail legend—with the Nordic prime feeling of Viking Gothic that rules the interior of the Magdeburg Cathedral, the points of Freiburg Minster and the mysticism of Meister Eckart. More than once the pointed arch threatens to burst its restraining line & to transform itself 4

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  18. 20. sij

    cathedrals, dominated with a magic of stone the outward language of Strassburg Minster, & fought a silent battle in statues and porches, fabric patterns, carvings and metalwork—and not less in the intricate figures of scholastic philosophy and in that intensely Western symbol, 3

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  19. 20. sij

    Thus, the Faustian soul of the Gothic, already predisposed to reverence by the Arabian origin of Christianity, grasped at the treasures of Late Arabian art. An unmistakably Southern, one might even say an Arabian, Gothic wove itself over the facades of the Burgundian & Provençal2

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  20. 20. sij

    True, all Cultures (the Egyptian, the Mexican and the Chinese excepted) have grown up under the tutelage of some older Culture. Each of the form worlds shows certain alien traits. 1

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