Oswald Spengler

"Adventure begins where comfort ends."

"Technology is the servant of intention."

"The task of the historian is not to explain the past, but to understand its necessity."

"Culture is the sum of all the forms in which the people of a community express themselves."

"Every high culture is a tragedy, beginning in becoming and ending in completion."

"The West is tired. Its people have lost faith in themselves and their future."

"Man is the only being who can contemplate his own extinction."

"Numbers are not knowledge; they are the tools of knowledge."

"Tradition is the illusion of permanence in a world of constant change."

"The true artist creates not for the masses, but for eternity."

"Politics without historical understanding is merely the shuffling of shadows."

"Money is congealed power, nothing more and nothing less."

"War is not the failure of civilization, but its truest expression."

"The great man imposes his will upon history, not history upon him."

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely the accumulation of facts."

"Freedom is the right to choose one's own form of slavery."

"Youth believes in the future; age knows better."

"The highest culture is always the product of decline."

"Technology extends our reach but contracts our understanding."

"Beauty is the syntax of the soul made visible."

"The masses do not lead civilization; they are the clay from which it is molded."

"Every epoch believes itself to be the pinnacle of human achievement."

"Literature reveals the truth that history conceals."

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the will to act despite it."

"The modern world mistakes motion for progress and noise for thought."

"A civilization that has lost its myths has lost its soul."

"Work is the form through which man realizes his essence."

"The future belongs to those who understand the patterns of the past."

"Patience is the virtue of those who have learned the pace of existence."

"The greatest strength lies in accepting what cannot be changed."