“One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician.”

— Oswald Spengler

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About Oswald Spengler

Philosopher • German

Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher of history whose major work was "The Decline of the West." In it, he proposed a cyclical theory of the rise and fall of civilizations, challenging the linear...

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