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Diary entry for 1911-08-06
... whatever form it is uttered, be it serious or witty, by a (as people believe) "professional" (from profession!) or non-professional, i.e. on an appropriate or inappropriate subject. From Haldane's speech: "Germany had the misfortune to have been born as a ...
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Diary entry for 1912-09-17
... man in his darkest yearning is yet conscious of the right path" – errors in the contemplation and conception of the external world lead to confusion and guilt, so the clarification of the guilt-bearing errors will, naturally, provide the subjective ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-27
... 's nothing there for the author." My idea, that the greed of all these people should not after all have to perch on this small branch of 60 Kreutzer, was of course alien to him. Even a small piece worth 60 Kreutzer must be subject to the rules of financial ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-29
... downgrades it to the material of a feuilleton, in which one can see that it could justifiably have served as the vehicle for a different subject, one could say "Phrases on the Sovereignty of Phrases"! Newspapers reprint an article from the Neue Zürcher ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-28
... their morality or their art is unthinkable, even though their physical being is subject to such a decline. Spinoza can thus never become a rogue; and so gives the lie to the theory of decline in ethical terms. In any event, the historians – and probably ...
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Diary entry for 1916-02-13
... prisoners are brought in, each under his own escort. The interviews then proceed in two small rooms, in the presence of officers who should somehow avoid taking in the subject of the conversations. One can well imagine the intense strain bearing down upon ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-14
... seriousness, as a basis of peace: leave England to its command of the seas, Germany to its militarism! It hasn't even dawned on this idiot that no one should subject Germany's militarism to any form of coercion, except the Germans themselves, whereas England ...
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Diary entry for 1916-08-11
... England, who is supposed to represent a kind of spear and shield of the English nation! I get onto the subject of speaking French and English, and am particularly extreme in castigating this bad habit of so-called high society by noting that this society ...
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Diary entry for 1919-03-04
... coalition in the National Assembly (against the Social Democrats). Imposition of a state of siege in Berlin; two lead articles on the subject. "Prevention of Food Distribution by France." Pichon on the question of lifting the blockade: "inseparable from the ...
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Diary entry for 1927-12-11
... of my theory compared with that of Kurth – later, Jöde would be confronted, also Halm. He also mentions Jonas's articles to me. I approve the plan. Since in the articles by Weisse and Jonas the subject of meter and rhythm will come up often, I have ...