Oswald Spengler

"The West does not move towards its end, but it has already ended."

"Money is congealed labor."

"All profound disturbances of peace are the end of something."

"The history of a culture is the history of its ideas."

"Facts are stupid things unless fitted into a system."

"Scepticism is the mark of the educated man."

"The meaning of world-history lies not in the things that are done, but in the fact that something is done."

"I see in the eyes of youth the fire of a great passion."

"Art is the effort of man to express the unreality of his surroundings."

"Democracy is the necessary form of a decadent civilization."

"The present age is one of gigantic economic and political transformations."

"Man is the only creature that works for something other than his immediate needs."

"Every high culture is a unity in its innermost essence."

"The machine is the symbol of our age."

"Those who are not philosophers are slaves."

"Power is the ability to shape reality."

"War is the creator and the sustainer of states."

"Beauty is the revelation of the divine."

"Time is the final dimension of existence."

"Nature is indifferent to human morality."

"Leadership is the capacity to influence outcomes."

"The tragic sense of life is the beginning of wisdom."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but its transcendence."

"Freedom is the recognition of necessity."

"Death is the ultimate teacher."

"Perseverance is the virtue of the strong."

"Gratitude is the root of all virtue."

"Creativity is the rebellion of the spirit."

"Justice without mercy is cruelty."

"Patience is the discipline of the wise."