Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness - Oswald Spengler

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Prison Notebooks gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.

Oswald Spengler

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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