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Diary entry for 1916-02-16
... , als durch die Hypothese eines sacro egoismo. sacro egoismo: a term coined in 1915 by the Italian prime minister Antonio Salandra, according to which Italy would side with whichever of the warring factions would grant Italy the more favorable terms when ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-28
... it, and thus invents a mendacious fiction which is the opposite of the truth. Thus it is always vanity which, of its own accord, points to the presence of mendacious fictions, thus an ugly component of the soul. The ancient philosophical adage "Know ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-10
... them to imagine that they have already reached that goal well before they have done what is necessary to achieve it. In maintaining, of their own accord, that they are personalities, they are under the illusion that they have already offered evidence ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-05
... the military school, about having to learn fencing and riding; he says that, according to Mr. Spiegler, the sugar industrialists have been shown to be still in possession of backlogs dating back to 1914 but have been selling them at inflated wartime ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-15
... formulation he supplied, his own; and we were also surprised that he did not immediately pay out the money due to me of his own accord. He told us how the day before he had devoted himself to the pleasures of hunting; this taught me especially not to allow my ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-19
... with snow flurries at noon. Lie-Liechen's good idea of having Mozio visit Mama. Postcard to Einschenk: I ask him for Mozio's precise address. LetterOC 52/197 from Hertzka: invoice for the Ninth and Op. 110 with retail discount, entirely in accordance ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-29
... clearing! According to this use of terminology, the thief and robber may from now on speak likewise of a mere "clearance": and never of theft or robbery. Scheidemann is now beginning to emphasize that the enemies are not interpreting what has just happened ...
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Diary entry for 1917-08-23
... haben wird. 23. Clarion sky! On account of baths, we unfortunately stay at home. The payment for damages arrives from the insurance company. Letter from Prag-Rudniker: they announce the sending of a basket which is 100 centimeters long; according to a ...
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Diary entry for 1917-10-23
... unusable it is. I reproach him that through the gas heater my heater has been made unusable, and therefore cannot be considered, also not according to the regulation. Dr. Brünauer also helps me in this respect. Apart from this, I allege that through the gas ...
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Diary entry for 1918-03-03
... almost of its own accord, without causing loss of blood or any pain; even if it had done its duty to the very last, I did not begrudge it its ancestral place up to the moment it decided to go on its way. Lie-Liechen buries it in the tiny coffin beside the ...