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• Diary entry for 1914-08-20

  ... material. How the German newspapers commended Edward VII as a genius-endowed politician as he travelled from one capital city to the next, a traveler in waistcoats and dances. What devastation did this glorification of an incompetent king, offered by ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-27

  ... peacetime, a relationship between one person and another, between a person and a cause, that is characteristic only of the genius. So much power of judgment would have to be stored in humanity in order to understand that all dangerous situations can also be ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-09

  ... situation. Thus ends Russia's "genius," which the whole world extoled as been the equal of, say, a Napoleon and which was almost deified by their own people. The Tsar himself stands at the head of the army, but that, to be sure, only offers the possibility ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-17

  ... individual. Humanity just has no talent for life – the individual geniuses excepted – something, moreover, that the history of mankind teaches us on every page. In every individual human being lies an unimagined amount of energy. Unfortunately, his life runs ...

• Diary entry for 1917-02-18

  ... true culture and, what's more, even better than the geniuses. In their vanity they lose every sense of perspective. Of the all-too-righteous observers of the world war (Foerster, Kraus etc.) one may say: is it objective and appropriate for a victim, at ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-04

  ... still cannot even find it when it is presented to them clearly. How simply the world of tones essentially lies before us, chiseled in the works of the geniuses; and yet how many false theories, concepts, presentations and realizations have gone to ruin ...

• Diary entry for 1919-05-19

  ... alten Autoren den Ausdruck überwältigender umfassender Bildung! May 19, 1919. World war as world folly! Only Hindenburg and Ludendorff are geniuses, the rest of the players sunken in the deepest folly. The German people alone among peoples cut the most ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-13

  ... change in America, too, insofar as that victory will in any event signifies a capitis diminutio of that businessman, who strives for wealth unencumbered even by every prohibited means. Wertheimer says: "One is envious only of talents, but not of geniuses ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-06

  ... thing matter finally becomes too much and results in the undoubtedly empty words: "Genius always runs ahead.") Anyone who has heard of the difficult circumstances under which our soldiers are fulfilling their duties must also summon his unconditional ...

• Diary entry for 1911-08-28

  ... master" still continues to work wonders, not only from God to humanity, but also from husband to wife. — in Jeanette's hand, corrected by Heinrich: final version only given here: Misunderstood woman, misunderstood genius! What a difference in the conduct ...

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