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Diary entry for 1916-05-31
... circle of Epstein, Door, and Goldmark, expressed his genius-hostile view that Brahms was a great genius but – perhaps on account of this – also an inferior person! From all that he said about Brahms, the all too modest nourishment that he drew from those ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-23
... English sense of criminality, would leave England with all its advantages; invoking all the gods and geniuses and discharging the excretions of the most beautiful phrases in order to burden the Central Powers with nothing but disadvantages. He, the ...
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Diary entry for 1907-12-27
... been wrong. a undated Those who sigh and say "Poor, poor dear Mozart!" believe that in so doing they alone are expressing their intuitive sympathy for human fate, for the sad fate of a genius. They flatter themselves moreover that saying so bears ...
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Diary entry for 1911-11-11
... knows to say that "Genius is order." ...
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Diary entry for 1911-11-19
... genius alone ‒ like the Creator in his works ‒ creates entirely fairly and perfectly, whereas it is not given to others to act other than by means of destruction and immorality, even in the most dazzling outward success and ostensibly unimpeachable ...
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Diary entry for 1913-02-07
... measure to the payment and non-payment of tribute. Admittedly there are situations in which the genius simply brushes the tribute aside, and others in which it is a requirement of prudence to acknowledge tribute to encourage the one paying it along the ...
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Diary entry for 1913-10-22
... . Simplicissimus in Munich is publishing a very bold "1813" issue. Instinctive and probably also a well-understood homage to the genius Napoleon. The unmasking of the monarchy happens in such an ostentatious, yet at the same time in such a convincing way that the ...
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Diary entry for 1914-08-27
... recognize German genius for what it was and simply and insultingly called them "barbarians." The conclusion is convincing: that Mr. Maeterlinck, as I have always maintained, had only limited means to achieve limited effects. That they were sufficient for ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-05
... for a victory at Komarów; what they would better understand would be a battle near a town whose name is familiar to them. What a nadir of human psyche in general, and how wasted are all the acts of genius by field commanders if the response to a ...
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Diary entry for 1914-11-20
... Germany! Ultimately, the individual genius in conflict with the world also behaves no differently: he asserts himself until his last breath, punishing the world even while bearing gifts. ...