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Diary entry for 1899-10-01
... of so many people, the tissue of deception lies so thinly that it is never even noticed by conventional eyes. In particular, Ibsen likes to present layers of deception that are so thin ... . draft in Heinrich's hand in Ser. B, p. 5 Ibsen. If ...
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Diary entry for 1910-04-13
... strive, after the event, to correct in the name of truth thoee legends and lies that they have piled up over countless years. What a waste of energy and possibilities for development; and how easy it was to avoid straying from the path, if only one had ...
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Diary entry for 1914-05-27
... . That lies simply in the physical presence of the superior person in the material concerned, to whom will be begrudged his feeling of superiority! ...
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Diary entry for 1916-01-09
... conditions. How much more useful it would be to know that the fatal conditions are remediable, to discover the paths by which they are to be remedied, than to crown and reward the orgy in laziness and animalistic existence with a double lie, namely with the ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-26
... wise precaution. Where belief is concerned, I'll believe as readily as any fool. Cowardice and patience prevent me from lying. All my thinking, my hate and my love are so clearly written on my forehead – that you do not learn to read is your own fault ...
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Diary entry for 1916-06-25
... illogicality and undue fervor are the cause of false conclusion among those who think differently from them. The matter is the other way round, and indeed as follows: in the very concept of generalization lies the inference from the individual to the general ...
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... der Besten zu Brahms sich in einer Wandlung befindet. Daraufhin gesehen, hat die Brahms'sche Musik eine eigentümliche Geschichte: bei ihrem Erscheinen wurde sie vom deutschen Bürgertum als seine eigenste Angelegenheit betrachtet. Man sah in seinem Lied ...
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... business I never lie." To imagine a world of Spinozas is disallowed, but even one Wilson among millions of Spinozas would sully and detonate the federation. It will not work because nature simply will not have it that way. It has laid snares for the human ...
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... the multifarious drift of the wind. In the genius, all powers blossom at the same time; and the imagination within lies not in the flower but in the flower-goddess who takes the sepals as they scatter their pollen together and arranges them into new ...