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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 ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-08
... act would go unperformed. With vanity, however, hypocrisy also enters into erotic activity. It is ridiculous, then, if people already call the orgy of vanity love, if in consequence of the lie contained therein they fall to pieces, complain about love ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-18
... through his deed, as a document of recognition and fulfillment of an artificial task he has deliberately undertaken. But since a person rarely understands how it merely lies in his very own creative to conceive a particular task, recognize it and fulfill ...
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Diary entry for 1919-01-25
... of the revolution and the circumstance that many workers are of the understanding that the revolution is a great wage movement!" – extremely important! This is how Marxists imagine revolution. The blame lies of course with Marx. Reform of marriage ...
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Diary entry for 1899-10-01
... of so many people, the tissue of deception lies so thinly that it is never even noticed by conventional eyes. In particular, Ibsen likes to present layers of deception that are so thin ... . draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 5 Ibsen. If ...
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Diary entry for 1910-04-13
... strive, after the event, to correct in the name of truth thoee legends and lies that they have piled up over countless years. What a waste of energy and possibilities for development; and how easy it was to avoid straying from the path, if only one had ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-27
... . That lies simply in the physical presence of the superior person in the material concerned, to whom will be begrudged his feeling of superiority! ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-09
... conditions. How much more useful it would be to know that the fatal conditions are remediable, to discover the paths by which they are to be remedied, than to crown and reward the orgy in laziness and animalistic existence with a double lie, namely with the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-26
... wise precaution. Where belief is concerned, I'll believe as readily as any fool. Cowardice and patience prevent me from lying. All my thinking, my hate and my love are so clearly written on my forehead – that you do not learn to read is your own fault ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-25
... illogicality and undue fervor are the cause of false conclusion among those who think differently from them. The matter is the other way round, and indeed as follows: in the very concept of generalization lies the inference from the individual to the general ...