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Searched for genius in Diaries (250 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1916-09-19

    ... . Instead of accepting the symbol as a symbol, he would like the banner to be a symbol, thus merely linen, silk, or cloth today, but a person with body and soul tomorrow, moreover a person of genius. He places a double imposition on the symbol, according to ...

  • Diary entry for 1911-08-10

    ... : Mögen diese immerzu schenken, das Beste schenken, ‒ es vergißt ihrer dennoch jene, als gleichsam ein großer ewiger Bettler. (Moses, Christus, Shakespeare, Mozart u.s.f.)[.]This is an early instance of the type of list of "geniuses" that Schenker ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-07-22

    ... vulnerable geniuses. All providence of geniuses – and all the excitement that takes hold of them if, out of love for mankind, they seek to avert them from dire consequences – are rebuffed by those who are lacking in insight, in the name of their supposedly ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-09-16

    ... individual genius, who must give to humanity his best without being assisted by it for his service, is repeated with respect to German genius. The genius must not only be strong enough to be able at all to give, but in addition must be so much stronger as is ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-03-18

    ... "finished." Now I express the solution finally in this way: it is not deficiencies in tuition on my part, not even deficiencies in talent of the pupil – but simply the overpowering superiority of genius that is to blame if pupils who are not geniuses can ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-23

    ... humanity. Whether the genius does a deed or creates a work, whether a hero lives his life, whether it occurs in words or in examples, appearance becomes truth and truth becomes appearance. Religions are misunderstood words of a moral genius; the portrayal ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-12

    ... say, in contemplating the geniuses, that the genius could apparently not have been intended by Nature. For this reason, humanity would at any rate have special cause to promote such an aberration of Nature to the level of the divine, even in a quite ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-04-11

    ... Schwank: Die Welt will betrogen werden, S. 25: Der Maler: „Der wahre Genius hat es nicht eilig“ Bruno (ein Kunsthändler) „doch ich hab’ keine Zeit.“ Aus den „Geschwistern“ S. 48–49: Paul: „Wir sind ein wenig später als die Frommen zur Tugend u. Vernunft ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-09-11

    ... it is impossible for him even to write well. And precisely from this example can one recognize the root of all German ill: the insufficient appreciation, hence the undervaluing, of their own geniuses, which contrasts so grotesquely with the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-05-02

    ... to dismiss a Bismarck from his duty as an emperor than it is to deal with a rascal. To dismiss a genius, one needs only resolve and an order; but to dismiss England and America, for this the German emperor will gather the resolve only when he is ...

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