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Searched for genius in Diaries (250 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1917-02-07

    ... death, in mercenary soldiers, opium, and much else besides; and it understandably fumes with rage against the militarism which imposes a sentence of death which even the merchant must bear personally. On judgment in general. As one chooses the genius as ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-08-29

    ... resignation, about the right of talent and half-talent, and I do not tire of repeatedly emphasizing, that Vrieslander draws incorrect conclusions from my teaching when he believes he should understand especially from the genius sermon that no one other than a ...

  • Diary entry for 1908-01-23

    ... list of "geniuses" that Schenker particularly deployed in the early issues of Der Tonwille. Here he speaks instead of perfection and aristocracy. ist Vollkommenheit der aristokratischen Gesinnung nun endlich organisch miteinbegriffen! Nun lernt die ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-11-22

    ... sign of genius. Only the arts of illusion have made it possible for Wagner to place himself beside Beethoven. The illusory arts are also those with which he succeeds in making his audience believe that he is Beethoven's successor. And so his adherents ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-01-04

    ... abuses a particular courtesy of mine and Lie-Liechen’s. Common folk, being ungifted, behave passively towards the "should" comparatives that the geniuses formulate: they do not open the cracks in their consciousness, narrow as they are, any further; they ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-03-20

    ... to dispute the rights he arrogated with respect to me. Thus ends the artistic existence of a person to whom any awe of a true genius is unknown, and to whom also the honor of his life is not sacred! Brünauer cancels, despite he himself extending the ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-12-20

    ... comprehensively as a genius-endowed writer! The most recent edition of Harden's Die Zukunft presents a somewhat gloomier picture. LetterWSLB 233 to Hertzka, thanking him for sending C. P. E. Bach-Vrieslander, and an inquiry as to whether there are examples in ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-02-26

    ... the German cause, since their effect is merely one of defiance, without their being able to offer deeper reasons! At any rate, the latter will meet with ignorance; but that is once again the tragedy of a genius-imbued people, not to be understood or ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-07-11

    ... what the genius, as a kind of sacred wind of culture, is saying in order to lead us up to the highest point. Does not the wind, like the sea, also bring about similar consequences for the human head? As seasickness gives expression to the feeling of the ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-08-12

    ... , in fact, finding the truth is too difficult. Their life situation is as deep as an abyss, and only a genius's gaze can reach down to it. ...

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