Quote by Oswald Spengler on Children and Social Change

„When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.“

Oswald SpenglerQuote by Oswald Spengler on social change through attitudes towards having children in cultivated societies.
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Oswald Spengler was a German historian and philosopher, known for his theory of cultural cycles and his work ‚The Decline of the West‘.

This quote reflects Oswald Spengler's philosophical view on social change and demographic developments.


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Quote by Oswald Spengler about children and social change

Oswald Spengler (1880–1936) was a German cultural historian and philosopher. He gained fame with his work ‚The Decline of the West,‘ in which he portrayed history as a cyclical process of rising and falling cultures. Spengler critically analyzed the cultural and political circumstances in Germany after World War I, influencing political and cultural debates during the Weimar Republic.

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