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  • Diary entry for 1912-09-17

    ... work he may be, can take up and accomplish. Knowledge, however, is circumstantial, already specified by the subject. It introduces many names and concepts that one must spend a long time learning if one is to master it. Millions of people, for whom ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-29

    ... should not believe that "progress" has been made! In essence, people call "progress" that fatal habit of demanding always something new, different, i.e. simply the childish, subjective craving for ever new objects, and indeed without worrying about ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-05-06

    ... service was expected, remains to be seen; nonetheless, from a subjective standpoint I can only say the best things about it. Not only did it place me squarely in the springtime, it also undoubtedly made my body less burdensome, an effect that I would not ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-06-07

    ... that others become liars because they expect benefit from the stupid person's lying. One can see in every nook and cranny the disadvantages brought about by stupidity, and to what dangers it subjects others. If only "benefit" were not such an enticing ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-15

    ... find it particularly torturous to have to adapt to the party's subject matter. ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-08-18

    ... battlefield. We learn that she is the director of a pedagogical institute and we actually spend good deal of time on the subject of education. I mention the lady here, however, only because as a little girl in the Conrat household, she often had occasion to ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-08-31

    ... level of education, as if education were a sign only of officialdom and not rather a kind of ozone, which in itself has nothing whatever to do with social levels, with rich and poor, with authority and subject. ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-26

    ... to give it to her. The mother declines the gift; she then offers it to other members of the family, who likewise turn it down, whereupon she throws the piece on a small table with true indifference and changes the subject of conversation. – But one ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-03-25

    ... year, p. 5. 25. +5°, rain and wind! From Hertzka (letterOC 52/504): he reports having sent complimentary copies to my patrons and to Dr. Paumgartner; he returns, with as much insolence as naivety, to the subject of Op. 101, as if he was not in the least ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-20

    ... demonstrating that the people, the idol of the most recent decades, has everywhere failed as an independent force, regardless of the type of government to which it was subjected. The people are actually nothing more than a collection of water droplets, which can ...

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