“Politics sacrifices men for an idea, they fall for an idea; but economy merely wastes them away. In war life is elevated by death, often to that point of irresistible force whose mere existence guarantees victory, but in the economic life hunger awakens the ugly, vulgar and wholly unmetaphysical sort of fearfulness for one’s life under which the higher form-world of a culture miserably collapses and the naked struggle for existence of the human beasts begins.”
- Oswald Spengler (via vandrare)
- Oswald Spengler (via vandrare)