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• Diary entry for 1912-10-27

  ... geniuses. However little they understand their true essence, they nonetheless nourish themselves as best they can with their spiritual milk. And so I am hardly worried that they would suddenly start milking dogs, and indeed only because they despise their ...

• Diary entry for 1912-11-27

  ... so-called "musical people" reaching as far as the likes of Bülow and d'Albert, which despite all vanity, does not measure up to the demands of a work of genius – so it is with the majority of so-called "moralists," who are supposed to love better than ...

• Diary entry for 1916-12-14

  ... property owners. With this original sin as the first, however, history would have to be written in a quite different way. Businessman – genius: in accordance with the financial success that he has achieved in his life, he credits himself with special ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-09

  ... event of death. How should books bring in a return? Small domestic libraries, displayed for show, are profitable at most as a means of attracting credit. Thus for a businessman, consciousness, the worthiest gift of a genius, is employed simply for ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-21

  ... these very mediocre people, who care only about themselves, treat the world as their crutches – and that is what it surely will be thereafter! I regard it as no utopia, to strive to make the world a genius even without the application of force. For ...

• Diary entry for 1911-08-20

  ... artistic creations, based here and there on falsehoods, etc. They are proud of the latter, and consider the former, simpler natural stimuli, because not immediate enough, to be things of little value. Among human beings, true genius is, if I might finally ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-21

  ... identity is accepted – the poets largely excepted – by the great world of business people, politicians, and so on. Opposition to genius would at any rate still be understandable if the genius were ever to be unmasked as a being intent on brutally ...

• Diary entry for 1913-02-18

  ... accomplishments of a Caesar, and it would have been more important to bring these closer to ordinary people. Moreover, a genius like Caesar, even in his trivial matters, is still different from and greater than an ordinary person. One is not great without also ...

• ... futile to try to instruct on such a subject someone who thinks that taste alone governs art, especially a virtually uneducated taste. People want to speak only of a "genius" (on account of their own vanity!) or to criticize the artist (as it were, out of ...

• Diary entry for 1914-10-19

  ... , which as a nation overall is endowed with genius, must for this very reason alone provoke the envy and hatred of the other nations. It is thus the case, as a clear result of this, that the Germans are nowhere near to being sufficiently aware of their own ...

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