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Searched for genius (411 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1916-04-09

    ... individual genius literally stumbles over his own corporeality, so it also stumbles figuratively over the entire corporeality of humanity. After humans had succeed in corrupting nature in sexual matters, nature took revenge by providing sexual activity no ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-17

    ... quality of a Beethovenian genius to consciousness – not only of the specific profoundness but also of the specifically German quality. The understanding of a people's character, as a natural disposition, is as indispensable as, in another respect, the ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-10-03

    ... , etc. The art-work of culture is just too extensive as such, and cannot be subject to leadership by a single human being, not even one with the most genius-imbued head. But how can a work of art otherwise thrive except by constant vigilance, culture ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-11-14

    ... coffee house. Fourth visit to Orlay – the troubling tooth is unnerved. Brünauer suddenly cancels, on account of his wife's illness, but asks for a make-up lesson. Leibniz celebration! (His observations about genius and about language ought to be examined ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-03-21

    ... threatened by the fact that I say that one should reflect ten times about an attack on a genius before daring to carry it out; he avenges himself in the most petty way for my view of Bruckner by explaining that he would then be able to discover many more ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-07-09

    ... his noble efforts, which were at any rate intended for his grandfather. People are accustomed to dispatching God and genius in the same way: to treasure, to honor, to love – but to do nothing for them. For already love and honor cost them the price of ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-07-15

    ... as its first principle. The tragic element of democracy lies in the fact that it is completely unfruitful in the large: it is not aware of the only fruitful element, which lies in bringing forth of the individual, the genius. It then, of course ...

  • Diary entry for 1917-11-15

    ... the course of his life might have run, had he reacted in a way which would have solely corresponded with the truth. ..." then: "... of my own works ..., which, for the most part, – indeed, exclusively – reveal the musical craftsmanship of the geniuses ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-12-20

    ... Gespräch mit Dr. Kramarz, in: Wiener Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 12201, December 20, 1918, p. 4. December 20, 1918. "Unadventurous" … Sisyphus work of raw material – of genius – here only fundamental veneration and modesty, mediating and conciliatory, can help ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-04-27

    ... " (concerning a Jewish worker-poet). Neues Wiener Journal: Bahr's "Diary" – on elections, political parties (once again back to Bismarck), on Caesar's genius, etc.). ...

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