“To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required for a clear view of the monstrous drama. The will-to-power operating under a pure democratic disguise has finished off its masterpiece so well that the object's sense of freedom is actually flattered by the most thorough-going enslavement that has ever existed.”
Quote by Oswald Spengler
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Oswald Spengler
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
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