I see more sharply than others because I think independently of parties, directions and interests. I foresaw things as they developed organically and fatefully.
I see even more ahead, but I feel lonelier than ever, as among people who have been blindfolded so as not to see the collapse of the house while using their hammers.
But I repeat again and again that I have only described facts, for people who can think and act in a state-minded way, and not for romantics. #Spengler
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1/ Here, in man & in woman, the two kinds of History are fighting for power. Woman is strong & wholly what she is, & she experiences the Man and the Sons only in relation to herself & her ordained role. In the masculine being, on the contrary, there is a certain contradiction;
2/ he is this man, and he is something else besides, which woman neither understands nor admits, which she feels as robbery and violence upon that which to her is holiest. This secret and fundamental war of the sexes has gone on ever since there were sexes, and will continue
3/ —silent, bitter, unforgiving, pitiless—while they continue. In it, too, there are policies, battles, alliances, treaties, treasons. Race feeling of love and hate, which originate in depths of world yearning and primary instincts of directedness, prevail between the sexes