One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, … - Oswald Spengler

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

To give generously but appropriately and then, most difficult of all, and as the full apotheosis of the art, with feeling, in the moment and spontaneously, has always been recognized as one of the greatest of human qualities.

Oswald Spengler

One does not reflect on a point of honor - that is already dishonor. To submit to insult, to forget a humiliation, to quail before an enemy - all these are signs of a life become worthless and superfluous.

Dishonor, Doe, Enemy, Forget, Honor

Same Author Quotes

Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible.

Bottom, Defence, Love, Philosophy

Critical (i. e. , separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought. Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

Men, Knives, Soul, Thought, Easier

To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.

Leader, Masses, Mean, Press, School

Those who talk too much about race no longer have it in them.

Longer, Race, Talk, Too Much

Long, 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.

Country, Men, Long Ago, Fresh, Devouring, Dies