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• Diary entry for 1914-11-15

  ... . Bach and to no other composer from a pithy bass line, and thus a short extract bears witness to the overall structure of the genius-driven intellect, – in the same way, the extract from a work by Bach bears witness, in further prolongation, even to the ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-14

  ... objects of nature are connected with each other. The rich man: one bristles against the star status of the genius only in the realm of art, where it is surely most justified. By contrast, in the commercial domain even the government takes the position of ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-16

  ... , plums have simply disappeared! A an act of thievery that the shopkeeper riff-raff always practice when they have such opportunity – here, in Germany, Romania, Norway, etc. One used to speak of the cosmopolitan mentality of the German geniuses. There is ...

• Diary entry for 1916-11-21

  ... ; everything is gossiped about, sniffed at. – Only before a genius does the ape in man capitulate. ...

• Diary entry for 1917-01-29

  ... misunderstandings: the one regarding youth, as if every youth were automatically a genius-imbued complete entity; the other regarding quarter tones, about which I note that even our chromatic system presupposes the strongest feeling for diatonicism, and that a ...

• Diary entry for 1917-03-31

  ... not being able to offer him a similar joy with my own works, as I assume that my occupation is foreign to him. Nonetheless, if we are merely striving after the same goals, to relieve the disrepute surrounding genius, then it may suffice for him to know ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-26

  ... sciences as a counter-proof, we should instead regard it more than ever as confirmation that, for human beings, much still remains to be discovered. This process, moreover, is clearly evident in the connectedness of geniuses among each other and in their ...

• Diary entry for 1917-05-12

  ... spiritual eyes of geniuses; but as they are only spiritual eyes, they are of no use at all to the people. To Dr. Neumann (second visit). The tendency to form republics is in itself already welcomed by money states and large states; for they will have such an ...

• Diary entry for 1921-07-27

  ... disposed to be philistine and bourgeois in relation to a genius, at least to a certain degree. Antonio envies Tasso's profession, Leonore wants an adventure in love; the princess does love him, albeit only with bated breath (of course, she is depicted as ...

• Diary entry for 1925-03-19

  ... pleasant balance, if completely lacking any hint of a stroke of genius, of course. Regarding the harp playing, I noticed clearly how close modern piano playing in essence comes to harp playing. Sekles: serenade for ten instruments and harp: the first ...

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