“The common man wants nothing of life but health, longevity, amusement, comfort-“happiness.” He who does not despise this should turn his eyes from world history, for it contains nothing of the sort. The best that history has created is great suffering.”
Oswald Spengler was a German philosopher and historian, born on May 29, 1880, and died on May 8, 1936. He is best known for his work 'The Decline of the West', which proposed a theory of cultural cycles, suggesting that civilizations and cultures follow a cycle of growth, maturity, and decline. more
“Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.”
“Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.”
“The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.”
“Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.”
“I'm not from a theatrical background where people do like to work it out on some stage space.”