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• Diary entry for 1912-11-22

  ... sign of genius. Only the arts of illusion have made it possible for Wagner to place himself beside Beethoven. The illusory arts are also those with which he succeeds in making his audience believe that he is Beethoven's successor. And so his adherents ...

• Diary entry for 1913-01-04

  ... abuses a particular courtesy of mine and Lie-Liechen’s. Common folk, being ungifted, behave passively towards the "should" comparatives that the geniuses formulate: they do not open the cracks in their consciousness, narrow as they are, any further; they ...

• Diary entry for 1913-03-20

  ... to dispute the rights he arrogated with respect to me. Thus ends the artistic existence of a person to whom any awe of a true genius is unknown, and to whom also the honor of his life is not sacred! Brünauer cancels, despite he himself extending the ...

• Diary entry for 1914-12-20

  ... comprehensively as a genius-endowed writer! The most recent edition of Harden's Die Zukunft presents a somewhat gloomier picture. LetterWSLB 233 to Hertzka, thanking him for sending C. P. E. Bach-Vrieslander, and an inquiry as to whether there are examples in ...

• Diary entry for 1915-02-26

  ... the German cause, since their effect is merely one of defiance, without their being able to offer deeper reasons! At any rate, the latter will meet with ignorance; but that is once again the tragedy of a genius-imbued people, not to be understood or ...

• Diary entry for 1915-07-11

  ... what the genius, as a kind of sacred wind of culture, is saying in order to lead us up to the highest point. Does not the wind, like the sea, also bring about similar consequences for the human head? As seasickness gives expression to the feeling of the ...

• Diary entry for 1915-08-12

  ... , in fact, finding the truth is too difficult. Their life situation is as deep as an abyss, and only a genius's gaze can reach down to it. ...

• Diary entry for 1916-04-05

  ... progress will remain for all times as follows: that a person must, so to speak, walk over his own corpse in order to be resurrected in a genius. They have an easy time walking over the corpse of someone else, but never over their own. Die, and become ...

• Diary entry for 1917-02-02

  ... there is no greater shame, in my opinion, than to show oneself of base upbringing and character by being taken in by the first bad person without further ado. As I often tell my pupils, the shame does not lie in being taken in by a genius, but much more ...

• Diary entry for 1917-02-28

  ... revelations about America and England, discredits the formlessness of the breech with special skill, a formlessness that appeals to the boorish Wilson against all propriety. It was also edifying to hear how he praised "the genius of the supreme army command ...

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