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• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture I: On Spengler's "Decline of the West"
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  • symptom which is far more significant than many sleeping souls
  • mistake it is to sleep away this seriousness of the times.
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture II: Oswald Spengler - I
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  • plant-world “sleeping”; that represents first of
  • all the world around us, which is thoroughly asleep. He finds
  • the animal-world, and finds the former in the sleeping state
  • Sleeping:
  • the influence of what is sleeping. The animal —
  • sleep in himself. That is true. But all that has significance
  • for the world proceeds from sleep, for sleep contains
  • is one which arises from sleep.
  • sleep the Where and the How are not to be found,
  • What he does as a historical being proceeds from sleep.
  • giveth to his beloved in sleep. To the Spenglerian man it
  • is nature that gives in sleep. Such is the thinking of one of
  • very cleverly, the plantlike activity of humanity during sleep.
  • But in order that he may have something to say about this sleep
  • sleep.
  • means: “In sleep all beings become plants,” that
  • its blessed sleep. Thus one faces the conjecture that this
  • sleep, destined to spread perpetually as history in human
  • sleep-nature of the plant has even some highly
  • following: This sleeping state in man, that which is
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture III: Oswald Spengler - II
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  • people are supposed to think somewhat, they prefer to sleep a
  • little. Perhaps they attend the lecture, but they sleep —
  • they go to sleep when they have read one-third between two
  • effective comes from sleep, and that is contained in the plant
  • sleep is what is alive. The waking state brings forth thoughts;
  • planted in me while I sleep, and I really need not wake up at
  • only walk around and, still sleeping, perform what occurs to me
  • in sleep. I should really be a sleep-walker. It is a luxury
  • sleep-walking. Why be awake at all?
  • accentuated sleeping a little, so that proper participation
  • participants might be visible. Sleeping is really exceedingly
  • what other people are quiet about. The others sleep; but
  • Spengler says: People must sleep; they should not be
  • deliver an entirely adequate thesis for sleep. So what it
  • sleep!
  • wakefulness, not to sleep, and because it would like to take
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article I: Spengler's "Perspectives of World History"
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  • glance at the sleeping plant-life to which we are
  • directed toward the sleeping life of the plant?
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article II: The Flight From Thinking
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  • Spengler speaks of the sleeping plant-life and uses
  • without Waking-being. In sleep all beings become plants:
  • formatively in life comes out of the sleeping plant-element in
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article IV: Spengler's Spirit-Deserted History
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  • down weary to sleep. Man becomes a plant again, adhering to the