…in you. This relativism with respect to the god image is very important in our time and now to conclude I always think of Spengler when I look at what's going on in the world today. I became acquainted with Spengler some 40 years ago and it was in…

…our time and now to conclude I always think of Spengler when I look at what's going on in the world today. I became acquainted with Spengler some 40 years ago and it was in those days a great shock. What he had to say? What he had to say was that…

…Thomas Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche then I also ran into Spengler the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo Frobenius. These are the people who meant something to…

…Mann, the great people were Goethe, Who's just inexhaustible with this stuff, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Then I also ran into Spengler, the decline of the west and a really great anthropologist, Leo Frobenius. These are the people who meant something to…

…such doctrines as those of Christ or Laozi or Confucius or the buddha and so forth but those are not what dominate the culture. Spengler has a statement in the decline of the west which stays in my mind: if you haven't the courage to be the hammer,…

…all. Why do you think that? Well I don't know I don't see any intention anywhere in our public action. Another word of Spengler some long time ago he wrote a work called the years of the decision, jahr Der Entscheidung, and he was dealing with exactly…

…such a will that you play at it. This is what Nietzsche calls the love of life, Amor Fati and it is the point that Spengler makes when he quotes seneca saying: he who goes with fate, the fates lead. He who resists fate, the fates pull. You've got to…

…in the 20s and it has been something of a life experience to watch the not so gradual coming into fulfillment of the world that Spengler wrote about. And I can remember we used to sit around and discuss this and try to find how you could beat it down…

…you could beat it down and try to find what the positive things were in this moment of crisis and transition. And Spengler himself said that in the period of transition from culture to civilization there is a dropping of the culture forms. It's…