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• Diary entry for 1909-01-25

  ... through it." Sign of our times: it is false shame to declare the source from which one has acquired something worth knowing. Clearly it is again only the genius (e.g. Goethe, Schiller) who learns gratefully, and cites his source by name. ...

• Diary entry for 1911-05-30

  ... -volume of volume II! — Only geniuses build, and even then only where they appear merely to destroy! A Bismarck destroyed the lives of many people in order to found the German empire! All that other people, however, can do is destroy each other without ...

• Diary entry for 1911-06-23

  ... longer conducts his business in an "artistic" manner; scarcely have a few months passed when a female client receives an invoice for costs. . . . and so on ad libitum. Supposing a genius had conducted his calling as negligently as do merchants, craftsmen ...

• Diary entry for 1911-11-15

  ... few who stroll on the heights, the geniuses, who alone understand that all salvation of life resides in the relationship of things, as also for mere humans. Akin to the Creator of the World, they too are themselves creative spirits, and they take ...

• Diary entry for 1912-10-18

  ... appear before the genius, as beggars and parasites, they urgently demand being spared the humiliation of being in receipt of a gift. Put another way: the rich, as beggars, want to take without anyone speaking about it, without anyone noticing it; on the ...

• Diary entry for 1913-04-14

  ... far above ordinary people, the latter are only granted a semblance of them; and precisely the condition that they, from a lack of ability, are incessantly determined to destroy makes the geniuses obliged to proclaim over and over the same truths! To my ...

• Diary entry for 1913-05-28

  ... suffering from the fact that he unfortunately cannot be spared the situation. The two are different things! The genius is especially destined to be obliged to get involved in situations that others bring upon him; he then suffers from the reality of the ...

• Diary entry for 1914-06-22

  ... true artists, the people would show more respect for art. For my part, I strive honestly offer musicians more of a foundation for their artistic dignity, by stretching their horizons to encompass the luminous effect of the genius. When the foundation ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-10

  ... does not realize that such relationships cannot be broken off by casual means, but can be dealt with only in the deepest recognition of German genius, a recognition of which he himself, like his other colleagues, have hitherto remained wanting. Postcard ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-16

  ... arbeitslose – Millionäre. September 16, 1914. Religion is invented by the poor (by the genius who appears from among the ranks of the poor); the rich man, however, never has a religion. The complete enjoyment of the world creates in him an arrogance out of ...

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