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"nature is a function of the particular Culture"
-pp. 91

"the decline of the West. Every Culture passes through the age-phases of the individual man. Each has its childhood, youth, manhood and old age."
-pp. 74

This part is about mathematic.

"The Classics mathematic was a complete thing - it is merely not so for us."
-pp. 50

Spengler viewed it as such:
"Plato and Goethe stand for the philosophy of Becoming, Aristotle and Kant the philosophy of Being."
-pp. 38

"As we are speaking of economic factors, we will take the opportunity
to mention a widespread illusion on this subject, namely that
of supposing that relations established in the field of commerce can
serve to draw peoples closer together and bring about an understanding
between them, whereas in reality they have exactly the
opposite effect."
-pp. 88

"quality matters little, it is
quantity alone that is of importance, which brings us back once
more to the remark we have already made in other contexts,
namely, that modern civilization may truly be called a quantitative
civilization, and this is merely another way of saying it is a material
civilization."
-pp. 87
"Politics seem to be altogether controlled by finance,"

"If the word 'democracy' is defined as the government of the people
by themselves, it expresses an absolute impossibility...

it is contradictory to say that the same persons can be at the same time rulers and ruled, because, to use Aristotelian terminology, the same being cannot be 'in act' and 'in potency' at the same time and in the same
relationship."
-pp. 74

"The most decisive argument against democracy can be summed
up in a few words: the higher cannot proceed from the lower,
because the greater cannot proceed from the lesser; this is an absolute
mathematical certainty that nothing can gainsay.

And it should
be remarked that this same argument, applied to a different order of
things, can also be invoked against materialism;"

-pp. 73

"Modern man, instead of attempting to
raise himself to truth, seeks to drag truth down to his own level,
which is doubtless the reason why there are so many who imagine,
when one speaks to them of 'traditional sciences', or even of pure
metaphysics, that one is speaking only of 'profane science' and of
'philosophy'."
-pp. 66

"if an idea is true, it belongs equally to all who are capable of understanding it; if it is false, there is no credit in having invented it. A true idea cannot be 'new', for truth is not a product of the human mind; it exists independently of us, and all we have to do is to take cognizance of it; outside this knowledge there can be nothing but error"
-pp. 56-57

Moreover,because of the correspondence that exists between all the orders of reality, the truths of a lower order can be taken as symbols of those of higher orders,and can therefore serve as 'supports' by which one
may arrive at an understanding of these; and this fact makes it possible
for any science to become a sacred science,giving it a higher or
'anagogical' meaning deeper than that which it possesses in itself.

"a true understanding can come only from above and not from below; and
this should be taken in a twofold sense: the work must begin from
what is highest, that is, from principles, and descend gradually to the various orders of application, always keeping rigorously to the
hierarchical dependence that exists between them"

-pp. 30-31

il faut opérer en partisan partout où il y a des partisans.