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Diary entry for 1914-11-19
... absurd, however, would it be to think that a billionaire were dependent on a loan of two Heller from a beggar; but it is also no different if people who are nobodies pretend that they are the sort of people who have to borrow something from a genius like ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-18
... moment requires of him. Accordingly, no technique of war is too old not to be brought into play if warranted by a particular cause – in short, Hindenburg again represents that type of true German genius, who penetrates the situation to its deepest level ...
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Diary entry for 1915-02-19
... – only one path leads in that direction: and that is that the Germans should learn above all to owe nothing to their own genius. In a certain sense this final – and, admittedly, most difficult – stage on the path to development; and so long as it is not ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-14
... who – though he fulfilled his duties with such genius – nonetheless never found the opportunity to refer to a success that dazzled the eye and the ear. What a bitter injustice would have been done to this man if, by chance, the west Galician battle had ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-26
... relinquish any troops in Ypres, something which the French will have to interpret as crude self-interest. The regret over the Salonika adventure is surely not a proper weapon on the battlefield! Genius is the very point outside the world that also sets the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-05
... , merely because further work on it would otherwise be necessary. He is indeed very partial towards instantaneous accomplishment of genius. He left my room not without displeasure, where as I encouraged him with all imaginable arguments and sought to make ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-09
... individual genius literally stumbles over his own corporeality, so it also stumbles figuratively over the entire corporeality of humanity. After humans had succeed in corrupting nature in sexual matters, nature took revenge by providing sexual activity no ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-17
... quality of a Beethovenian genius to consciousness – not only of the specific profoundness but also of the specifically German quality. The understanding of a people's character, as a natural disposition, is as indispensable as, in another respect, the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-03
... , etc. The art-work of culture is just too extensive as such, and cannot be subject to leadership by a single human being, not even one with the most genius-imbued head. But how can a work of art otherwise thrive except by constant vigilance, culture ...
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Diary entry for 1916-11-14
... coffee house. Fourth visit to Orlay – the troubling tooth is unnerved. Brünauer suddenly cancels, on account of his wife's illness, but asks for a make-up lesson. Leibniz celebration! (His observations about genius and about language ought to be examined ...