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• Diary entry for 1914-08-27

  ... recognize German genius for what it was and simply and insultingly called them "barbarians." The conclusion is convincing: that Mr. Maeterlinck, as I have always maintained, had only limited means to achieve limited effects. That they were sufficient for ...

• Diary entry for 1914-09-05

  ... for a victory at Komarów; what they would better understand would be a battle near a town whose name is familiar to them. What a nadir of human psyche in general, and how wasted are all the acts of genius by field commanders if the response to a ...

• Diary entry for 1914-11-20

  ... Germany! Ultimately, the individual genius in conflict with the world also behaves no differently: he asserts himself until his last breath, punishing the world even while bearing gifts. ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-26

  ... , love wants to be learned, like any other handicraft; and thus one might understand it still better when I say: as little musicians are able to express themselves successfully in the major and minor tonal system – and here only a few geniuses can do so ...

• Diary entry for 1915-09-30

  ... genius who is indispensable for their lives, the next one storms in and must start all over again. In this respect they resemble the ever-changing influx of pupils from one year to the next, who achieve only the slightest part of their goal – though this ...

• Diary entry for 1916-06-11

  ... stage of his development; that is, at a stage in which he was mainly collecting intellectual experiences without being able or wishing to reach a conclusive judgment! In their early years even the greatest geniuses suffer from mistakes; for this reason ...

• Diary entry for 1916-08-09

  ... the overall life of nations, in proportion to its yet modest spiritual provision. But the nation has no idea at all what an infinitely high value is possessed by language, insofar as it is placed in the service of the most outstanding genius to express ...

• Diary entry for 1916-10-23

  ... to write something five days before": Vossische Zeitung – – Our geniuses have already for a long time been leading the way, and for longer than five minutes – but it has not done any good. Vossische Zeitung (mid-October): "Principles of Censorship at ...

• Diary entry for 1917-03-20

  ... , too? The state: the order, which geniuses have advised and continue to advise, has not been taken on by the state; but they have adopted one which the usurpers granted. To the same degree that they needed to protect themselves from any regulation based ...

• Diary entry for 1919-01-31

  ... ; correspondence between the two emperors – it is clear: Wilhelm II did not understand Bismarck's genius. Letter from a German-Austrian female pacifist (to be read again!). Clémenceau admits to having sacrificed a certain number of very personal viewpoints! The ...

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