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Diary entry for 1915-11-21
... . Schopenhauer: to read and to learn is to step onto and investigate the surface of a sphere. To think is to penetrate its inside. The former is merely a means to the latter. One travels all over the surface of the sphere in order to find the places where one can ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-16
... , the consequences of whose behavior have once again come to light, as a result of her taking the disastrous step of going against the advice of her family and Mrs. Hauser – for the simple reason that she would otherwise have had to admit the validity of ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-24
... finally gives voice to the holy scripture "…" – and yet one cannot really take a step further with the cunning rogue! Germany would be unworthy of its rank were it ever to forget what sort of conscience this thug has!! Double morality of the state and ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-20
... further step. Rosegger, My Holidays; an extremely humorous, truly poetic accomplishment. From "The Guest-Book in the Alps": "Hieronymus Lorm writes about a Viennese millionaire who, following a sumptuous dinner, was carried in a richly, softly upholstered ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-29
... direction of St. Christoph; but we soon turn back, as we are uncertain about the weather. Back to work, for which the sky now takes on a good blue disposition once again. "Scale step" Stufe continued. At noon, under a cloudless sky, 22°. FromOC B/171 the ...
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Diary entry for 1917-01-13
... . I was able to risk using this tone of voice with all the more self-composure since Miss Elias had recently expressed her willingness to step in for Mrs. Deutsch, and also after Lie-Liechen's sage advice that even Baron Alphons could be prevailed upon ...
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Diary entry for 1917-05-28
... courageous people who are standing at the very front decide to take the first step over the grating; then the remaining passengers spill over to freedom, as if the station guard has never exercised his authority and proclaimed the prohibition. We don ...
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Diary entry for 1918-09-19
... 7 kilos of plums. Mrs. Wally fails to turn up, even after Fl. announces her coming for today. In the afternoon to the pharmacy, where I casually step onto the scales to read the oracle: 86 kilos! – so an increase!; after that to the Franz ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-05
... Senate – Senator Lodge in favor of immediate peace negotiations with Germany. Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung: "Remarkable Consequence" (on the revolutionary step taken by the Czechs). An appeal from Lloyd George to the workers. Der Abend: polemic against Renner. ...
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Diary entry for 1928-07-30
... assuming the form and intellect of a child, so little is it possible, having outgrown a particular environment, to step into it once again. This is also the case with women, though, thanks to their greater adaptability, they are less sensitive to the ...