Spengler is a surname, and may refer to:
- Alexander Spengler (1827–1901), the first Davos doctor specializing in tuberculosis
- Bruno Spengler (born 1983), a Canadian racecar driver
- Jörg Spengler (born 1938), German sailor
- Joseph J. Spengler (1912–1991), American economist, statistician and historian of economic thought
- Lorenz Spengler (1720–1807), Swiss-born Danish decorative artist and naturalist
- Oswald Spengler (1880–1936), German author, writer of The Decline of the West
- Spengler's civilization model
- Egon Spengler, a character from the Ghostbusters films
- Pierre Spengler, a European film producer
- Spengler, the pen name of David P. Goldman, columnist for Asia Times Online.
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Famous quotes containing the word spengler:
“It is the Late city that first defies the land, contradicts Nature in the lines of its silhouette, denies all Nature. It wants to be something different from and higher than Nature. These high-pitched gables, these Baroque cupolas, spires, and pinnacles, neither are, nor desire to be, related with anything in Nature. And then begins the gigantic megalopolis, the city-as-world, which suffers nothing beside itself and sets about annihilating the country picture.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“The last man of the world-city no longer wants to live—he may cling to life as an individual, but as a type, as an aggregate, no, for it is a characteristic of this collective existence that it eliminates the terror of death.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)