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Diary entry for 1914-09-08
... part that it would of course like to see "the princes of the Land of Genius excluded." The old illness of the Germans, the pandering to foreigners, has made a new bed for itself in the form of editorial remarks; and while English, French and Russian ...
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Diary entry for 1914-09-09
... . Another magnificent 42cm-caliber shot: Kaiser Wilhelm's protest against Wilson’s speech, about the barbarian conduct of war on the part of the English and French. In view of the fact that no American journalist, even if may be so inclined, will suppress a ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-18
... "finished." Now I express the solution finally in this way: it is not deficiencies in tuition on my part, not even deficiencies in talent of the pupil – but simply the overpowering superiority of genius that is to blame if pupils who are not geniuses can ...
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Diary entry for 1915-06-13
... that has been bought. Specifically, I go so far to suppose that the first peace feelers from England lie behind this. If one considers that the language of the reprisals on the part of Germany have already had a good effect with respect to the captured ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-09
... the other hand, is something that they themselves call "politics" – in this case, the state attorney plays no part and the deceit is carried out on the safe terrain of politics, far from crime and punishment. The rich man, as usual, has the advantage ...
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Diary entry for 1915-09-29
... -raff who, in times of peace, corrected the geniuses and gave their own judgment about our opponents. Now the crawl back to the cross and allow the geniuses' judgments to stand. But surely only for the time being! For no sooner have the clouds parted that ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-24
... of good deeds of a higher character. In our case, it would be a greater love on the part of the Germans if they properly brought to the attention of the French, English and Italians their arrogance, their lesser capability, their dishonorableness ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-06
... satisfied merely to be impressed with the personal agents of knowledge and art; knowledge as such makes no impression on him, least of all to the point he would part with his money for it! The rich man: the rich man spends all his time in the service of his ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-20
... ; they now deal with the pains of the world and recognize for their part that the most upsetting thing about human destiny is that there are people who neither find joy in getting roused, nor do they believe that they have any reason to do so. "On the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-06
... 's relationship to her was regarded as a serious error on the part of the master, which was excusable only on account of his literary greatness. The earliest judgment about this emanated, of course, from the ladies of contemporary Weimar society; and among them it ...