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• Diary entry for 1913-10-25

  ... , Goethe, Beethoven, or Brahms; he would then learn to understand that what already fills him to his furthest extremities would not suffice even to understand the accomplishments of those geniuses, let alone bring them to fruition! Just as little would he ...

• Diary entry for 1916-12-10

  ... 's latest package. Postcard to Sophie: confirmation that the package has arrived. In the Neues Wiener Journal, an article by Friedell on tact – a sophistic showpiece, a textbook example of sophistry: tact is supposed to be intelligence; a genius is, however ...

• Diary entry for 1917-03-25

  ... genius like Beethoven cannot be the subject of a drama, unlike for example Wallenstein or some other hero from a historical drama, may be explained by the fact that the tragedians have figured out, with a sharp instinct, how a genius like Beethoven always ...

• Diary entry for 1924-01-30

  ... : moreover the Lenin peasants have stayed the same as the tsarist peasants. Woe betide Germany if it takes into its head to resolve the conflict between Nature and Marx in Marx's favor. Avoid the office of a judge in art and permit the non-geniuses to live ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-08

  ... militarism and the remaining commercial and other activities of the Germans, which he describes collectively as a good, healthy inheritance of Frederick the Great. In fact, order and cultivation are the first attributes of genius-driven activity, no matter ...

• Diary entry for 1914-08-30

  ... between genius and talent; of the duty of the talented to be modest. And I indicated as the only way by which humanity can arrive at its possible goals: self-recognition, and modesty of talented people in the face of a genius. And equally I proposed the ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-03

  ... decades. But here the difference between genius and talent comes to the fore: Bismarck achieved the unification of Germany in the name of the nationality principle but nonetheless, for higher reasons, uncoupled the Germans of Austria; the Russian fools are ...

• Diary entry for 1916-11-13

  ... , it can basically be mastered only by a genius. As the quality of genius is not given to a woman, she creates a twofold problem: as a woman, and as a non-genius. The vanity of women is self-deception; they are prepared to be happy, and to make others ...

• Diary entry for 1916-11-27

  ... divinity, the geniuses have for a long time appeared on the scene, as the masters and teachers of people. May humanity be beholden to them for all time! Before us lies the grave; but ahead of us only generations who likewise will stand at the beginning, as ...

• Diary entry for 1908-01-05

  ... ‒ suicide. heavily edited by Schenker in blue crayon; final version only given here: Mankind would really love to pass off genius, despite its highly tangible humanity, as if it were merely one of those charitable acts of Nature that, such as e.g. sun and ...

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