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Diary entry for 1909-12-21
... weakness on to the stronger and more productive classes of men. The moral turpitude of the businessman is consequently, so to speak, the eternally latent vengefulness of his ineptitude and unproductiveness: he simply has to tell lies, since otherwise ...
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Diary entry for 1911-07-21
... strength and effort, and thus deters even the most fearful from choosing the former paths. But fear drains still more of our strength and well-being, consequently its promises of freedom from danger and saving of energy are only illusory. Emotion has a ...
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Diary entry for 1912-06-30
... his recommendation. Floriz’s position at the Academy is becoming more untenable from one day to the next; he is taking the one possible consequence of voluntarily tendering his resignation, and resolves to issue a pamphlet. As in all such cases, I ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-02
... stubbornness and the commercial greed that lay behind it: a greed that behaves most foolishly and most un-businesslike where it drives what seems like the most brutal consequence. Being thus acquainted with the innkeeper's practices, we seek other alternatives ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-26
... outset is something that the Germans demonstrate. That it would finally have to be possible to say the truth, under all circumstances, would be the simple consequence of it being true that the French understood what the truth is. This involuntary desire ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-09
... after it has compelled him to do so. When things can no longer be otherwise, and the consequences of the lie finally bear the wonderful fruit of the truth, the Frenchman begins to blare out his avowal of the truth with a boulevard grimace! Zola’s now ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-27
... issued hints about bad consequences in eastern Galicia, which he attributes to the lack of preparatory diligent work in Austria. Even if one is to agree with this idea, one must nonetheless say that it applies only to the surface: for the lack of diligent ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-04
... Kreutzer. I, too, was in a good mood, for now I have the occasion to turn the thorn of punishment against this inhuman being. The woman thinks that, with her wealth, she is too lofty to be punished by me; but the consequences will teach her how this ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-18
... dishonor on the battlefield will, conversely, only be construed as honor in the field of journalism. The consequence of this can only be that Mr. K., encouraged by the success of his plagiarism, will not at all shirk from presenting his readership with even ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-06
... calls both the ware and its manufacture "practical." In consequence, however, he would have to understand how even turning away from art should at least be regarded just as practically as turning away from other practical objects. And yet he wishes to ...