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• Diary entry for 1897-09-12

  ... ) If, however, such disappointment in women is part of the norm of experience among all strong, masculine – and thus moral – characters, then the poet's genius is perhaps most to be admired in the way the puzzle of the mother's possible complicity as ...

• Diary entry for 1907-09-29

  ... is concerned, there ought to be evidence of aptitude. Mahler. People acclaimed him, people rated him as a genius in all that he thought, undertook and completed. In the end, many, many years later, it dawned on them ‒ over the course of time ‒ what he ...

• Diary entry for 1908-02-09

  ... , "Naivety and Genius" Die neue Rundschau, February 1908 "Second naivety" ‒ a very apposite phrase ‒: After conscious exertions, it is the conquests of a new and higher plane on which the artist moves no less sure-footedly than on the first and lower ...

• Diary entry for 1911-08-26

  ... road toward Bozen (Bolzano) and the involvement of the villagers. Jean Paul: Introduction to Aesthetics"For in the first place, genius strikes the world like the light of the rising sun; the assembled critics sneeze, imitators procreate*), and ...

• Diary entry for 1912-10-25

  ... genius! In spite of the decline of the Turkish empire, mankind will, now as in the past, swear to what is thought to be the uniquely sanctifying power of the "people"! The true understanding of events will be concealed by the world of journalism, which ...

• Diary entry for 1913-03-07

  ... letters, the likes of which only a genius like Beethoven can give them. Even the sexual drive is based more on vanity than on an organic imperative. For this reason, science goes astray if it ignores the motor of vanity or takes too little account of it ...

• Diary entry for 1914-06-01

  ... very low price, possibly without charge. He overlooks, however, that the ability to take is the least developed human skill, which makes no distinction between wealth and poverty. So little can the rich man himself take gifts from God, or from geniuses ...

• Diary entry for 1914-06-07

  ... genius, the creator of the works, is not by any means always able to handle a new situation on the basis of previous experiences. Even a Beethoven or a Brahms will be placed as a result of his thematic material in new situations, which give rise to new ...

• Diary entry for 1914-10-16

  ... also find confirmed by Weingartner, that every genius-endowed sign contains something ultimately concealed, which most people could only approach to a limited extent; and even those very people who appeared to come very close still always remained ...

• Diary entry for 1914-10-24

  ... against each other in a confined space! To Breisach the following unmasking of a conceited remark undertaken: that even a Hans Richter knows nothing of the difficult puzzles that lie in the masterworks of our geniuses may simply be demonstrated by the fact ...

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