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Searched for genius (85 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1912-09-15

    ... orderungen sind, die die Bettler da unten an das Genie stellen! Moral: 15. 9. 1912, HS hand: in the Neue freie Presse, see the supplement. JS hand: When Goethe, on the basis of his own genius, felt himself drawn most intimately to Napoleon as someone who ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-05-25

    ... also politically valuable success over Italy; (2) victory at Radymno, which brings in 21,000 prisoners! It is the same with states as with tonal systems: only a genius can command the major and minor truly well; by contrast, the non-geniuses are unable ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-04-08

    ... communications from Violin and Weisse, is the real reason why he spoke of the university. 12. IV. The modesty of geniuses in their youth: Chopin – Kalkbrenner, Brahms – Joachim! They begin with modesty, and only after they gain complete conviction of their ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-12-24

    ... , Kretzschmar, Bekker, and a thousand other things. It is a strange world that strives to demonstrate its respect for a genius by not wanting to approach them by promoting their welfare (by means of monetary contributions)! But for it to take cheaply from a ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-10-30

    ... ," especially for a "great man." In fact, the world without the center of a genius is merely a state of chaos. The despair and poverty in driving forces, pushes towards reciprocal massacres. I suspect that the mass migrations that have been transmitted to us by ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-11-22

    ... of enjoying such dividends, she dispenses in small quantities, so as to keep her dividends in her stockings. – In addition, the conversation moved around the theme that in the true genius, person and artist are kept in balance, that in his artistic ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-11-26

    ... is that of a genius-imbued people; for how can one otherwise explain the demand of the neutral countries to have simply confirmed and admitted, in the language of their ignorance and in their intellectual and moral inferiority, that which they gather ...

  • ... , als mit den besten Kräften für diesen Genieglauben zu werben. In der „Musik des Südens“Dahms, Musik des Südens (Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1923), chap. 8 Der Genius, pp. 227‒71. steht im Mittelpunkt ein Kapitel „Der Genius,“ in ...

  • Diary entry for 1913-09-22

    ... idolize its great geniuses and creators of good things, or at least reckon them among the saints? Never will humanity even begin to consider the idea of pronouncing a Goethe, a Beethoven or a Mozart saintly, instead of the many other saints! The reason for ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-10-21

    ... -known from the lives of towering individuals: precisely the genius is brought to account and tested for his usefulness by useless persons, whose existence lasts only a moment and is dependent upon the grace of the genius. Thus the person who does beneficial ...

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