„[A proposito della nomina di Hitler a Cancelliere] Non fu una vittoria, perché mancarono i nemici.“
citato in Ioachim Fest, Hitler, una biografia
Data di nascita: 29. Maggio 1880
Data di morte: 8. Maggio 1936
Oswald Spengler è stato un filosofo, storico e scrittore tedesco, autore, tra le altre opere, de Il tramonto dell'Occidente.
citato in Ioachim Fest, Hitler, una biografia
— Oswald Spengler, libro Il tramonto dell'Occidente
da Il tramonto dell'Occidente, Guanda, traduzione italiana di Julius Evola
Il tramonto dell'Occidente
Origine: Citato in Walter Laqueur, La Repubblica di Weimar, traduzione di Lydia Magliano, Rizzoli, Milano, 1977, p. 121.
— Oswald Spengler, libro Il tramonto dell'Occidente
Il tramonto dell'Occidente
— Oswald Spengler, libro Il tramonto dell'Occidente
The Decline of the West (1918, 1923)
Contesto: The press to-day is an army with carefully organized arms and branches, with journalists as officers, and readers as soldiers. But here, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and war-aims and operation-plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows, nor is allowed to know, the purposes for which he is used, nor even the role that he is to play. A more appalling caricature of freedom of thought cannot be imagined. Formerly a man did not dare to think freely. Now he dares, but cannot; his will to think is only a willingness to think to order, and this is what he feels as his liberty.
Origine: The Decline of the West, Vol 2: Perspectives of World History
Origine: The Hour of Decision
Origine: The Hour of Decision
Origine: The Decline of the West, Vol 1: Form and Actuality
— Oswald Spengler, libro Il tramonto dell'Occidente
Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 462 https://archive.org/stream/Decline-Of-The-West-Oswald-Spengler/Decline_Of_The_West#page/n931/mode/2up
The Decline of the West (1918, 1923)
Prussianism and Socialism (1919)
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<p>At the end of the [eighteenth] century Spain had long ceased to be a great power, and France was on the way to following her example. Both were old and exhausted nations, proud but weary, looking towards the past, but lacking the true ambition—which is to be strictly differentiated from jealousy—to continue to play a creative part in the future. [The end of the eighteenth century is the time of the French Revolution, which was all about equal rights.] ... "Equal rights" are contrary to nature, are an indication of the departure from type of ageing societies, are the beginning of their irrevocable decline. It is a piece of intellectual stupidity to want to substitute something else for the social structure that has grown up through the centuries and is fortified by tradition. There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.
<p>And that, at bottom, is the intention. We do not seek to alter and improve, but to destroy. In every society degenerate elements sink constantly to the bottom: exhausted families, downfallen members of generations of high breed, spiritual and physical failures and inferiors. ...
There is but one end to all the conflict, and that is death—the death of individuals, of peoples, of cultures. Our own death still lies far ahead of us in the murky darkness of the next thousand years. We Germans, situated as we are in this century, bound by our inborn instincts to the destiny of Faustian civilization, have within ourselves rich and untapped resources, but immense obligations as well. ... The true International is imperialism, domination of Faustian civilization, i.e., of the whole earth, by a single formative principle, not by appeasement and compromise but by conquest and annihilation.
Prussianism and Socialism (1919)