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Meingast: we live in the time of the vote ballot and this is a coward anti philosophical time

Difficulties of a moralist writing a letter [to sister Agathe]

[Ulrich's kind of pastoral admiration for the devil]

[beauty comes from belief, not from knowledge, he thinks]

Diotima books are about the psychology and physiology of marriage

about body and soul hygiene

(Ulrich) I will drop my post as secretary

Diotima has new readings

(Diotima) our century thirst for action
(Ulrich) what action? what kind of action?

(Diotima) there's a profound friendship between us

Do you know what the European balance is?

Tuzzi: we career diplomats don't know


it's that thing you cannot disturb, to avoid everybody hitting each other [war]

[siblings meet at dinner]

[Ulrich thought that sister’s intention to hit Hagauer was illegal]

(Ulrich to sister) Even Nietzsche recommends to the “free spirits” that they should observe certain rules, in attention to the interior freedom.

[sister wants to forge a document with her own handwriting, imitating father's]

Ulrich started going upstairs. He finally wanted to see that apostle who came down the mountains of Zarathustra and entered family life of Walter and Clarisse

Are you in charge of those negotiations? [Ulrich asked general Stumm]

It's a military secret.

I was handed the military coffer.

[a holed one]

[Ulrich finds the secret drawer of father's desk]

[father's fantasies exposed]

No European of today flagellates himself, or covers himself with ashes, or dedicates himself fully or withdraws in fact from society
However all feel the need to do it once in a while