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Searched for development (463 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1914-11-20

    ... the English in arrogance and the French in vanity, i.e. to develop such an abundance of self-consciousness as is somehow possible and, with the strongest fist, to teach and force the world to thank it. Germany, which at the present moment sets about ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-12-04

    ... entire prolongation of eternity, and its billions of people, such back-and-forth truly reveals the wretched picture of humanity and its development! Letter to Wilhelm written during the morning and afternoon, in order to decoy him into the trap of his own ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-01-03

    ... years that I was able to recognize the mistake; and I was astonished that Brahms had such a splendidly developed ear even the first time he heard it." Unfortunately I myself, on account of being so much younger which was at any rate honored by the old ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-03-25

    ... forefront of civilization? And now I ask: if most nations only develop an animalistic ethic, so to speak, and then from purely animalistic disposition delight us with attractive characteristics from time to time, should it not then be enough if, in ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-12-04

    ... land. We come from the earth, and we belong essentially to it, rather than to the water and the air. No human development can change this. (Parallelism in the realm of music: compared to the passing note, as the primal manifestation, the neighbor note ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-01-02

    ... . In Goethe's novel, most of the characters are untroubled; tellingly, only the actors have to struggle with their raw existence. But it is precisely they who practice art, which is again telling. In reality, human developments begin above the struggles ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-05-01

    ... thoroughly fantastical possibilities; and she thus stands as a gigantic obstacle in opposition to all development of the human race which, sooner or later, will be unable to perform the most modest social task if she is unable to bring herself to live in ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-09

    ... , very short sketches, the gist of which is on the tip of one's tongue all too soon. There results from this only a collection of sketches, not a well-developed whole. ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-08-15

    ... creates benefits and initiates new development." Today opposed to censorship, in order to free the word; tomorrow in favor of censorship in the recognition that the word is no longer appropriate! One is not mistaken in supposing that the shameful press is ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-09-10

    ... obsession with what is distinctive, entirely new. Only later in life does one realize that the new can only develop from the old, and thus it was an illusion to believe that one could begin with oneself, entirely new, in one's youth. Chapter "Voice ...

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