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• Diary entry for 1916-12-15

  ... , pp. 2-4. Frau D. erzählt, daß die Notizen von ihrem Bruder Either Heinrich or Fritz Mendl. See diary entry for December 12, in which the remarks on research and genius are first mentioned. sind u. so komme ich in der Stunde wieder auf das Thema ...

• Diary entry for 1914-10-21

  ... -known from the lives of towering individuals: precisely the genius is brought to account and tested for his usefulness by useless persons, whose existence lasts only a moment and is dependent upon the grace of the genius. Thus the person who does beneficial ...

• Diary entry for 1907-05-26

  ... to try to instruct on such an issue anyone who considers that taste alone governs art, especially a merely poorly developed taste. People like to talk only of a "genius" (on account of their own vanity!), or to criticize the artist (as if out of a ...

• Diary entry for 1908-01-19

  ... population. But is it, I ask, any different with the bestowal of spiritual gifts by geniuses upon mankind? Can geniuses ever cure the spiritual impoverishment of the latter? Not even their wealth can help; yet, when viewed from a different perspective, the ...

• Diary entry for 1913-10-15

  ... literature, which one can hear in the side-streets of the city, have been contaminated by all the poisons of modern music: over-exaggerated chromaticism and forced polyphony! – a real travesty of the military march! The conquering of a genius is celebrated in ...

• Diary entry for 1913-11-02

  ... am a more virtuous man, a better husband, father, and son. Naturally, this denigration of genius is based on an arbitrary supposition; but there is no other way in which the average man is able to save himself before the force of genius! Now he argues ...

• Diary entry for 1913-12-14

  ... "varied reprises" to sonata form! In any event, the music itself is thoroughly instructive and full of genius; and the art of the variations that the master demonstrates proves to be a possibility that can again be achieved only by a genius. – It is a ...

• Diary entry for 1913-12-28

  ... the genius; this is the usual vengeance of the receiver upon the giver! Grotesquely, however, the same humanity, after a certain amount of time has passed, shows its almost patronizing nature in researching the truth about the genius; and this is ...

• Diary entry for 1914-08-24

  ... German soldiers have kept pace with the German geniuses much sooner than the many writers and scribes. Mr. Stahl says that German form must first be sought; from the debt that we must pay to the geniuses, now more than ever, and the fact that this payment ...

• Diary entry for 1914-10-10

  ... ," to which I reply that it is only a shame if one is fooled by a mediocre person, never when one is left standing behind a genius whose puzzles one has honestly strived after. That is the very nature of genius, that it leaves mediocre talents behind it ...

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