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• Diary entry for 1897-02-12

  ... is ever only the genius who hits upon the simply beautiful and uniquely right solution! Not to mention what a boon Brahms alone was able to draw from his encounter with the Chaconne: see the Passacaglia in his Fourth Symphony. Draft as far as ...

• Diary entry for 1912-09-17

  ... weapons – again on account of ineptitude! The geniuses have shaped themselves with a "should," which is of itself foreign to nature; thus, for example, a horse is lacking the vanity to become a steed – a vanity on which it must depend if it is to be a ...

• Diary entry for 1912-12-18

  ... Hände. See Lessing’s play Emilia Galotti (Berlin, 1772), Act I, scene 4, where the painter Conti says to the Prince of Guastalla: "Perhaps you think, Prince, that Raphael would not have been the greatest genius in painting if he were, unfortunately, born ...

• Diary entry for 1913-04-27

  ... as the benefactors of all good things. Of what use was it that the Bible established the Tower of Babel as a paradigm for human arrogance? How futile proved the lesson that the pyramids gave us! While the geniuses alone have learned to honor ...

• Diary entry for 1913-12-22

  ... , counterpoint and form without getting beyond a textbook education, and without having experienced what the genius of our masters really amounts to. With me, however, you have gained insight into the deepest secrets of music; and thus something like impatience ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-09

  ... his wife, about whom he says: "She would not understand this"! On the contrary, in my view, a woman may perhaps not have an automatic understanding of creativity, especially a genius-imbued creativity; but a man goes too far in undervaluing the female ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-18

  ... and painting. But of course the inner laws are, and will remain, the secret of the geniuses, and simply of these individuals. Thus, the completely hopeless probing on the part of philosophers, aestheticians. Supplement to "Preßburger" from May 13: Herr ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-19

  ... so that they can be granted a right to an understanding and perception of the masters, without realizing that things are no different in this respect from, say, elements of the white race, where there is a yawning gap between a genius like Bismarck ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-29

  ... deeper role to play in his life. Now, in my opinion, Mr. Simmel is not saying anything new about Goethe, least of all anything that would distinguish his genius. Even Goethe was in love in his youth, just as all men and women are in love, thus in the ...

• Diary entry for 1916-08-21

  ... of this, observations on optimism in matters concerning my own work, and the war. With regard to Bismarck's difficulties in Germany, to which he refers, I observe that the opposition to genius is not a special chapter in Germany's history but rather ...

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