II. Oswald Spengler I
GA 214/1922-08-06/p027
·1922-08-06
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We see here the thinker's complete helplessness with regard to the machine. It never dawns on him that there is nothing in the machine that could possibly be mystical for anyone who conceives the very nature of the unliving as lacking any mystical element.
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