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Diary entry for 1929-10-16
... pieces purchased at Thun's. At 6:30, Weisse! He brings his Bagatelles! The conversation changed subject frequently; he again affirms his devotion and admiration, his readiness finally to take up the pen to proclaim the salvation of the new theory – thus ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-26
... believes in marriage, not so much to promote this in a religious sense, but rather merely to put in order the lumps of money of its subjects, such as are in the possession of the individual families, decedents, and heirs. The state is interested above all ...
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Diary entry for 1909-12-21
... presented here Mittelschulreform.There are two paragraphs on the same subject in Schenker's diary for January 31, 1908, prompted by a lead-article in the Neue freie Presse of January 23, 1908. Vielleicht mag zur gegenwärtigen Täuschung der „Modernisten“ auch ...
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Diary entry for 1913-11-02
... concentration that makes it possible for him to broaden a single woman into a great world, which then is sufficiently great that he does not need to complicate that greatness by multiplication. An author, for example, who works on a subject for twenty or thirty ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-18
... experience from one day to the next. And that is indeed also what I demand of my students in art: to build further and further, without thinking of getting to the end of a chapter, with which the subjective illusion of "being finished" is connected ...
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Diary entry for 1916-05-20
... therefore dispense with advisers. And, in truth, art is a more difficult subject than coal! The English say about themselves that they are ready to bite "like a bulldog"; and a Wilson says that his opponents must be "morally boxed to the ground" – this is ...
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Diary entry for 1916-07-26
... (without breaking the panel) until it dropped to the ground, exhausted. Accordingly, the servant simply grabbed it by the hand. And now that he was on the subject, he recounted further how a young shepherd succeeded in catching a young condor. He saw, to ...
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Diary entry for 1916-10-06
... in its soul. And as a person will be constantly be out of humor and ill if he neglects the use of his limbs or stops using them altogether, since he conversely draws all his pleasures only from the use of his limbs, likewise he will be subjected to ...
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Diary entry for 1916-12-15
... and diplomatically interspersed words of recognition. Mrs. Deutsch says that the notes were made by her brother, and so during the lesson I again revisit the subject research–genius as applied to genius per se. It is downright grotesque to see what ...
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Diary entry for 1917-04-04
... the ambassadors indeed reported with confidence – must have strengthened his illusion that he was on the right path when he condemned the political leadership in Germany and Austria. For if our own subjects are against it, how should that not ...