“Man makes history; 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.”
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
“Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness”
“When the Englishman speaks of national wealth he means the number of millionaires in the country.”
“One cannot learn how to be creative by reading Marx. Either one is creative or one is not.”
“If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.”