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• Diary entry for 1916-09-09

  ... -class riff-raff – not even humus for geniuses, like the lower-class riff-raff! Religion is art; and thus also morality, understood as the resolution of competing interests among people, it is to be likewise judged as art. The state believes it has done enough ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-18

  ... to pile a religion upon a funeral pyre than to practice it. There is not actually an excess of heroism in all such cases, for heroes are as rare as true geniuses; it is just the very easiest form of coming to terms with the gigantic, towering problems ...

• Diary entry for 1916-12-08

  ... the others would not already encounter catchphrases and coquetry on their own. The core of the human tragedy: the survival instinct and centripetal thinking result in a severe manifestation of illness in people (geniuses excepted), a cleft which ...

• Diary entry for 1917-01-04

  ... up to the demands of external politics, then still much less success can be expected of the people as a whole; one would otherwise have to reach the strange conclusion that the people as a whole can accomplish more than the individual, the genius ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-15

  ... be permitted to bear, buoyed by a message from the Austrian government that promises peace. Count Czernin lets it be known that a rapprochement with the Russian republic is probable. So Buchanan would thereafter by no means be the diplomatic genius ...

• Diary entry for 1917-06-26

  ... succeed in arriving at the conclusion, in front of Lie-Liechen, that true information can, basically, be given only by a genius, or at least by a person who, to use the same analogy, knows not only the regulation but also the reasons for it, and that the ...

• Diary entry for 1917-07-16

  ... have to do with one another? One can see: only a genius accomplishes his deeds; parties and people, on the other hand, exhaust themselves in wishes, words, pranks, grimaces, and other excesses. And to this unruly, uneducable rascal of a child, often the ...

• Diary entry for 1919-06-06

  ... Tonwille (1921), "The Mission of German Genius," and the foreword to Counterpoint 2, published the following year. Further echoes of the political diary appear in the "Miscellanea" (Vermischtes) of the Tonwille pamphlets, in which Schenker presented his ...

• Diary entry for 1929-10-16

  ... fate of a non-genius, who otherwise has all sorts of talents but not one that can lead to the highest goals. Weisse defends himself by saying that he wanted to show how one can, after all, even use dissonances well, without deteriorating into the ...

• Diary entry for 1919-02-16

  ... court: "absolute ruination and brutalization by wartime buccaneers, not revolutionary visionaries"! The womb is not the head Lombroso: genius = criminal? – conversely: non-genius = criminal (perhaps this is how to put it: That which Lessing or Herder ...

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