"Cultures are organisms. World history is their collective biography. The immense history of Chinese or classical culture is, morphologically, the exact counterpart to the micro-history of the individual human being, an animal, a tree, or a flower. For the Faustian gaze, this is not a demand but an experience. If one wishes to become acquainted with the inner form that is repeated everywhere, comparative morphology of plants and animals has long since prepared the method for doing so."

— Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West: The One-Volume Abridged Edition

From the new English translation and abridgment by Constantin von Hoffmeister

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