Oswald Spengler

"Civilizations are organisms, born, growing, and destined to die."

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their vision."

"Art is the effort to express the inexpressible."

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely information."

"History does not repeat, but it rhymes."

"In the final analysis, culture is the expression of will."

"The masses move history, but the few direct it."

"Truth is relative to the perspective of the observer."

"Tradition is the democracy of the dead."

"The decline of the West is but the beginning of something new."

"Money is crystallized will."

"War is the father of all things in human civilization."

"Every era creates the heroes it requires."

"Science without conscience is the ruin of the soul."

"The individual is subordinate to the culture that created him."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but action despite it."

"Innovation dies when conformity triumphs."

"The weak perish not by might but by lack of will."

"Freedom without responsibility is merely license."

"Patience is the virtue of the powerful."

"Nature reveals itself only to those who question it."

"Beauty fades, but truth endures."

"The past is prologue to understanding the future."

"Leadership requires the capacity to see what others cannot."

"Work that lacks purpose becomes mere drudgery."

"Imagination precedes reality in all great achievements."

"The soul of a culture lives in its art."

"Mortality teaches us the value of time."

"Justice without mercy is tyranny."

"Perseverance is not stubbornness but directed will."