Early Days of World History Quotes

“Higher man is a tragedy. With his graves he leaves behind the earth a battlefield and a wasteland. He has drawn plant and animal, the sea and mountain into his decline. He has painted the face of the world with blood, deformed and mutilated it. But there was greatness in it. When he is no more, his destiny will have been something great.”
― Oswald Spengler, Frühzeit der Weltgeschichte: Fragmente aus dem Nachlass

“Atheism proves nothing against a person's religiosity. What matters is whether one has reverence for the mystery of the world, not how one thinks of it. One can 'believe in God' and be the biggest scoundrel. The difference between [Germanic] atheism and that of the metropolitan literati from Paris to Moscow lies in the fact that the second is a negation, the first an affirmation.”
― Oswald Spengler, Early Days of World History: Reflections on the Past

“World history is [the] conflict of nature in man and apart from man, akin to the other great spectacles of nature... the earthquake, the thunderstorm, the storm. The beauty of destruction, the greatness of the will to win.”
― Oswald Spengler, Early Days of World History: Reflections on the Past