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Diary entry for 1915-01-03
... , etc., to create a mood hostile to Germany; that sort of press, he says, would also have been advantageous for Germany. It is part and parcel of the disreputability of the profession to assert about the press that they were expressing public opinion ...
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Diary entry for 1915-01-17
... level on which the French stand!! Mr. Zuckerkandl transmits to me a request from Mr. Robert to provide a continuo part for a Bach violin sonata, for one of his soirees! But I tell him I won't, and explain that is not appropriate to mess up the current ...
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Diary entry for 1915-05-19
... the nationality principle on their part. It is thus evident that the older politics of nations, which did not know or follow the nationality principle which came into being in the middle of the nineteenth century, formed the basis of a much more ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-26
... munitions to England, there were plenty of other neutral states from whom the Boers, for their part, could likewise order munitions; in the present situation, however, the United States is the only state that is in any way in a position to supply weapons ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-30
... genius who is indispensable for their lives, the next one storms in and must start all over again. In this respect they resemble the ever-changing influx of pupils from one year to the next, who achieve only the slightest part of their goal – though this ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-13
... , it has become an article of faith; this reminds me of the Chinese pigtail, for which the Chinese went to their death but which has since become part of national costume – something that it was not at the very outset. Anyone who teaches virtue must ...
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Diary entry for 1915-10-24
... and believes that he can create miracles by investing certain parts of his monetary wealth in commodities or factories, or let it accrue interest in banks. But he will never understand that he he offends against productivity in the worst way when he ...
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Diary entry for 1916-04-21
... incapable of a true accomplishment, the rich man transfers the tendency towards parsimony even with respect to what money can accomplish. As with all his achievements, he is miserly even with his money. As martyrdom is part of the fate of a great artist, the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-01
... without any upbringing at all – she is able to advance from shop girl to a princess and then take part in her elevated rank. If one now considers that a woman attains these advancements simply by erotic means, then one can recognize in consequence why she ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-04
... -Liechen tells me the following, based on a communication of the housemaid: a young officer brings a lady the news that her son has fallen in battle. The mother shows herself to be composed; but as they part, she asks the surviving comrade: "Tell me just one ...