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• Title: Oswald Spengler: Contents
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  • The Flight from Thinking
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture I: On Spengler's "Decline of the West"
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  • thinker that such decline is necessary in accordance with the
  • the question: How can we orient thinking so that pessimism
  • scientific thinker appears, writes history, and discovers
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture II: Oswald Spengler - I
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  • thinking was itself involved in this decline; and because he
  • the obtuseness of thinking which by no means is equal to the
  • thinking of the present, I have again and again found it
  • striving of present-day thinking for clarity of view, I have
  • ordinary thinking does not discover how resilience works in
  • Anyone who thinks thus does not understand upon what clarity of
  • thinking is employed.
  • definite kind of thinking is what humanity has achieved since
  • simplest and most primitive kind of pure thinking, can he
  • thinking, as it holds sway in lifeless nature, can later rise
  • to the other processes of thinking and of seeing —
  • present-day thinking rests upon. And those who have become
  • aware of this power in the thinking of our time know that this
  • thinking is active in the machine, that it has brought us
  • modern technical sciences, in which by means of this thinking
  • start to deal with plant-life, this kind of thinking,
  • thinking — appropriate in its abstractness to the mineral
  • thinking about the plant-world, will have before him in the
  • confused thinking, a mysticism in the very worst sense of the
  • the means by which he has developed his clear thinking.
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• Title: Oswald Spengler: Lecture III: Oswald Spengler - II
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  • regarded as a brilliant thinker. He can hardly be called an
  • elegant thinker in the best meaning of the word, for the
  • poor opinion of thinking in general. For Oswald Spengler
  • what results from thinking, but in his opinion the more
  • with him thinking really floats above life, as something
  • of a luxury, we might say; and from his point of view, thinkers
  • nothing can flow into life. Life is already there when thinkers
  • appear who are ready to think about it. And in this connection,
  • moment when a thinker masters the special form of present-day
  • gained from thinking; and I said more or less jokingly:
  • people were not thinking about the mass, the elementals began
  • to think with the unused human intellect. Human beings had
  • before them from tradition. People did not think. Although
  • thinking if they wished to use their minds; but they have no
  • desire to do this; they are disinclined to think clearly. They
  • people desired to think they would not enjoy so much going to
  • think; everything just rolls past. The tiny bit of thinking
  • with active inner thinking has been slowly and gradually
  • almost entirely given up thinking. If a lecture is given
  • people are supposed to think somewhat, they prefer to sleep a
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• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article I: Spengler's "Perspectives of World History"
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  • modern technology. The newer thinking has trained itself to
  • look at the spiritually transparent. This thinking learns
  • picture-knowledge modern thinking has its greatness and its
  • developed this mathematical picture-thinking in the lifeless is
  • technology gives human thinking a stamp which leads to freedom.
  • Thinking rises from its dream through the coldness of the
  • frame the beginning and end of his thinking, and place
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article II: The Flight From Thinking
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  • The Flight From ThinkingAugust 20, 1922
  • “Thinking gives itself much too high a rank in life
  • all professional thinkers — and in all cultures almost
  • with the words: “But though man is a thinking being he is
  • thinking.” This is as true as “that two and two are
  • inserts thinking into life: he places it beside life. He
  • thinking. In this form it is reflection on life, not a force of
  • life itself. Of this thinking one may say that what works
  • this abstract thinking is only a phase in the development
  • of human life. It was preceded by a picture-thinking, which was
  • Admittedly this thinking works in a dreamlike way in conscious
  • “blood” and not of thinking, then one abandons all
  • progressed from the earlier pictorial forms of thinking to the
  • picture-thinking. It is significant that in occidental
  • culture during recent centuries abstract thinking
  • this abstract thinking is only a transitionary stage of the
  • thinking capacity. If we have experienced it in its full
  • able to rest content with it. It is a dead thinking, but it can
  • course of human thinking. The ascent to this conscious
  • imaginative thinking can engender impulses to action.
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• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article III: Spengler's Physiognomic View of History
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  • among men of the Occident. Spengler thinks through to the end
  • what others leave one half or one quarter done. This thinking
  • abstract thinkers are wrong who see in this development
  • spiritual perception. Intellectualistic thinking is not
  • this thinking remains honest, it must limit itself to
  • completely immerses himself in intellectualistic thinking and
  • world-being. This thinks in man, acts through man. This
  • Augustine was the last great thinker of Early Arabian
• Title: Oswald Spengler: Article IV: Spengler's Spirit-Deserted History
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  • facts from what men think although these facts are only the