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• Diary entry for 1916-05-09

  ... his wife, about whom he says: "She would not understand this"! On the contrary, in my view, a woman may perhaps not have an automatic understanding of creativity, especially a genius-imbued creativity; but a man goes too far in undervaluing the female ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-18

  ... and painting. But of course the inner laws are, and will remain, the secret of the geniuses, and simply of these individuals. Thus, the completely hopeless probing on the part of philosophers, aestheticians. Supplement to "Preßburger" from May 13: Herr ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-19

  ... so that they can be granted a right to an understanding and perception of the masters, without realizing that things are no different in this respect from, say, elements of the white race, where there is a yawning gap between a genius like Bismarck ...

• Diary entry for 1916-05-29

  ... deeper role to play in his life. Now, in my opinion, Mr. Simmel is not saying anything new about Goethe, least of all anything that would distinguish his genius. Even Goethe was in love in his youth, just as all men and women are in love, thus in the ...

• Diary entry for 1916-08-21

  ... of this, observations on optimism in matters concerning my own work, and the war. With regard to Bismarck's difficulties in Germany, to which he refers, I observe that the opposition to genius is not a special chapter in Germany's history but rather ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-09

  ... -class riff-raff – not even humus for geniuses, like the lower-class riff-raff! Religion is art; and thus also morality, understood as the resolution of competing interests among people, it is to be likewise judged as art. The state believes it has done enough ...

• Diary entry for 1916-09-18

  ... to pile a religion upon a funeral pyre than to practice it. There is not actually an excess of heroism in all such cases, for heroes are as rare as true geniuses; it is just the very easiest form of coming to terms with the gigantic, towering problems ...

• Diary entry for 1916-12-08

  ... the others would not already encounter catchphrases and coquetry on their own. The core of the human tragedy: the survival instinct and centripetal thinking result in a severe manifestation of illness in people (geniuses excepted), a cleft which ...

• Diary entry for 1917-01-04

  ... up to the demands of external politics, then still much less success can be expected of the people as a whole; one would otherwise have to reach the strange conclusion that the people as a whole can accomplish more than the individual, the genius ...

• Diary entry for 1917-04-15

  ... be permitted to bear, buoyed by a message from the Austrian government that promises peace. Count Czernin lets it be known that a rapprochement with the Russian republic is probable. So Buchanan would thereafter by no means be the diplomatic genius ...

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