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«This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.»
«The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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«It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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annihilating, baroque, contradicts, cupola, defies, denies, gable, gables, gigantic, high-pitched, lines, megalopolis, pinnacle, pinnacles, pitched, related, silhouette, silhouettes, Something Different, spire, spires, The City
«I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology.»
«Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes»
«Long ago the country bore the country-town and nourished it with her best blood. Now the giant city sucks the country dry, insatiably and incessantly demanding and devouring fresh streams of men, till it wearies and dies in the midst of an almost uninhabited waste of country.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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demanding, devouring, incessantly, insatiably, long ago, nourished, streams, sucks, The Giant, uninhabited, wearies
«There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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communist, for the time being, Idealists, proletarian, proletarians, slightest, suspicion, The Idealists
«Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
«If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
«The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play.»
Author: Oswald Spengler
(Philosopher)
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