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• Diary entry for 1929-08-19

  ... his genius as such in taking the position of Cantor. Seen in this way, one can understand why, being saddled with the cantorate, which did such great damage to his social standing, he struggled to gain the position of music director, as he had had in ...

• Diary entry for 1933-06-23

  ... Philharmonic under Heger play Rossini The Barber of Seville, Heger (Variations), Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony. Bruckner and Johann Strauss, the Austrians, have – before our very eyes, before the whole world – been summoned to the Valhalla of Genius!!! ...

• Diary entry for 1934-10-09

  ... on his nerves: "a misadventurer"! It would suit him if he Jonas were blessed with genius and money, and placed these gifts in the service of the couple. Fortunately, it will still take some time before this plan is realized, since their first priority ...

• Diary entry for 1913-06-12

  ... well as the oratorical accomplishments show good imitation; the difference – apart from male political geniuses who, like geniuses in general, shall according to my firm conviction always be absent from the female sex – may consist entirely in the fact ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-12

  ... geniuses and modesty on the part of talented groups. But how does one recognize who is superior in literature? The genius does not wear his distinction in the form of a golden collars and stars, for which reason the leader cannot be recognized from external ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-17

  ... genius at the outset, only to penetrate the lower layers afterwards. Not to the Poles nor to the Jews, not to the Ruthenians nor to the Rumanians, has such a genius yet been revealed; and precisely the German, whose language the Jewish tongue draws on ...

• Diary entry for 1914-12-03

  ... for a cordial agreement with their opponents, as if behind the back of the war. This is how fools and idiots understand a genius! As if it ever occurred to Bismarck to propose and alliance with, say, France! Why did he not do this, the scribblers ask ...

• Diary entry for 1917-01-28

  ... Vanderbilt in just ten lessons; this is the way things are taught and learned, the rest is youth, genius, and progress as synonymous terms. I recognize only one direction, and that is the one of well-written music; badly written music I regard as no direction ...

• Diary entry for 1917-05-21

  ... made a point of noting that all creativity is as conscious as it is likewise unconscious in its very earliest state, but that only the genius has the gift of appearing at the same time to lie asleep and be awake, whereas the others are either just ...

• Diary entry for 1914-05-27

  ... form of human being, the genius, whereby one must of course grant that even a genius, as a living being, is as susceptible to illness as much as any other living being. – For the sake of amusement, I sought in the conversation to explain Professor ...

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