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Diary entry for 1911-08-06
... diary, undated but placed adjacent to December 21. There were to be many more such diatribes from the 1912 diary onward. In the present case, "business sense" is used subordinately to the broader issue of the indivisibility of genius raised in the first ...
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Diary entry for 1912-10-30
... ," especially for a "great man." In fact, the world without the center of a genius is merely a state of chaos. The despair and poverty in driving forces, pushes towards reciprocal massacres. I suspect that the mass migrations that have been transmitted to us by ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-28
... remains a mirror, and beauty remains beauty, all fiction is unnecessary and one is automatically spared deceiving oneself about the image gained. And similarly, in the ethical domain, a genius has the possibility of denying all fiction: his inner beauty ...
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Diary entry for 1919-06-29
... ihm seine Ansicht über das persönliche Glück der zur Synthese Geborenen; leider habe der Weltkrieg solche Genies mit Ausnahme zweier Menschen Probably Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff whom Schenker would later name as geniuses ("and on the ...
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Diary entry for 1920-01-03
... afraid that my manner of referring to genius could lame a non-genius. I am, in fact, in favor of the non-genius recognizing his limits, but otherwise everyone should make use of his personality as well and as much he possibly can. Weiße says that ...
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Diary entry for 1928-05-28
... Waldstein Garden. 4:30 to 7:30, the film about Luther seen! A production very much worth seeing, even though Luther's greatness is too overpowering ever to be captured by a poet, let alone an actor. The wonder that comes to light in his genius is – like ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-06
... longer the same thing. Letter to Dahms, including the following: the distressing cultural situation in Berlin is in itself not yet crucial; it is just a question of whether the nation will be in a position to produce the geniuses. By genius, I mean the ...
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Diary entry for 1906-11-10
... "people" in art. Dr. Hirschfeld underestimates the particular demands that art makes. in left margin: in "Art and the Public.") √ final version only: In the last analysis, it has to be admitted that all the geniuses in art were men from among the "people ...
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Diary entry for 1916-09-24
... the Neues Wiener Journal. Genius understood as a desirable norm is correct; Friedell is only unable to explain where the abnormality of non-genius lies: it is a lack of intensity of love! The love of things is too weak to gain access to them. That the ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-27
... concert hall. The rich: the genius does not know the first thing to do with money, and thus make no demands for it. How is the poor devil of a rich man supposed to understand its potential applications? The rich man, on account of his lack of intelligence ...