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Diary entry for 1915-05-07
... a victory, insofar as an increasing hatred, arising from the deepest contempt, even in the all too easy-going population of this state would finally have to develop against the Italian highwaymen – a hatred which, sooner or later, would ultimately ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-23
... the developments should be viewed independently of victory or defeat. With these statements I was able to confirm my conviction that, in the flight of all manifestations, trade and commerce are the only things that remain, whereas art unfortunately is ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-27
... are in agreement; but they don't want to know anything about the immutability of the soul, for they would rather rock themselves in the delusion of development, that accords with their vanity and so often helps them to continue the deception of their ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-27
... -French-Russian oral pestilence as the triumph of catchphrase culture. The only education that the rich enjoy is that from their earliest youth. Here they are trained in movement and posture, familiarizing themselves in matters of cleanliness; beyond that they develop ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-01
... – though he was still able to ask me casually why I myself did not write for the newspaper – so that all the development of ideas from my field of work first had to bump into an unprepared initial effect. And secondly, I have qualms about the nature of his ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-22
... gradually and unnoticed, and then develops in the entire organism. It is like a disease which, driven from one place, appears in another with every greater strength. I have suffered a great deal from this passion; it has spoiled the best years of my life and ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-30
... too small to come along the right path. Not a little may her milieu have even had an influence on her development; and measured against that, what has been achieved may be regarded as astonishing. The principal role is played by superimposed passing ...
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Diary entry for 1917-03-13
... the Book of Moses. Or, put another way: does the illusion of a revelation have to be maintained for the masses, or not? It is basically, then, a question of the masses! The solution is this: the purely intellectual would have to be developed at a much ...
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Diary entry for 1917-05-18
... because the young man, in spite of all the resources of his upbringing, cannot understand how a situation of defense can automatically and organically develop into victory or defeat; and thus how a successful defense can signify a victory over the attacker ...
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Diary entry for 1917-07-15
... aristocratism will now develop all the more strongly. He wishes me success in my work. "Politics is destiny": Napoleon to Goethe. Napoleon fails to see that the following is more correct: destiny is politics. Crisis in Germany: Hindenburg, Ludendorff, and Stein ...