Quotes by Oswald Spengler

Oswald Spengler

German philosopher of history and historian

Lived from: 1880 - 1936

Category: History and sociology | Philosophers Country: Germany

Born: 29 may 1880 Died: 8 may 1936

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• 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.

  ― Oswald Spengler
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• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  ― Oswald Spengler
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Subjects in these quotes:

• country-town
• organization
• uninhabited
• non-obvious
• streams
• wearies

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