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Updated: September 12, 2025
'Germany's simplicity is that of the neurotic, not the primitive. It is megalomania and egotism and the pride of the man in the Bible that waxed fat and kicked. But the results are the same.
I wrote "The Black Monk" without any melancholy ideas, through cool reflection. I simply had a desire to describe megalomania. The monk floating across the country was a dream, and when I woke I told Misha about it. So you can tell Anna Ivanovna that poor Anton Pavlovitch, thank God! has not gone out of his mind yet, but that he eats a great deal at supper and so he dreams of monks.
The Junker is born to greatness even as the princely families of Germany have been born to a monopoly of all the thrones of Europe. As the race theory must inevitably lead to megalomania and reaction, so it must inevitably lead to militarism. As it is incompatible with democracy, so it is incompatible with peace.
Evolution by ideal attraction. If species are evolved they cannot guide evolution. Intrusion of optimism. Evolution according to Hegel. The conservative interpretation. The radical one. Megalomania. Chaos in the theory of mind. Origin of self-consciousness. The notion of spirit. The notion of sense. Competition between the two. Mind reading not science. Experience a reconstruction.
They hardly recognized him. The old leonine fellow was transfigured, as though by megalomania. He seemed larger, and slowly made the gestures of an emperor. He darted into the study, as Lilla said to David: "The piece will stand up for itself, I think. He's becoming almost too ridiculous." But in the other room Brantome began beating out fragments of Marco Polo.
He saw the room lighted fitfully by the play of searchlights over the city; the sinister entrance from a little balcony through the French widow, of the officer in uniform, his shadow flung ahead of him by the beam of the searchlight. He saw the man, blood as well as wine drunk, garrulous and fanatic with the megalomania of the conquering invader.
In our year of grace 64, although the throne is occupied by a vicious emperor suffering from megalomania and enormous self-conceit, the empire is in full enjoyment of its pax Romana. Another glance at the map will show how secure this internal peace was felt to be. The Roman armies will be found almost entirely upon the frontiers.
I shall not encourage the brat to lay an historical finger on callousness, bravado, trembling militarism, superficial culture, mean political passion, megalomania, and a taste for being in the majority as attributes common to Imperial Rome and Imperial England. Rather I will inquire whether the rest of Europe does not labour under the proverbial disability of those who live in glass-houses.
They could give him no assurance of any scheme of growth and unification, and no guarantees against the manifest dangers of economic disturbance and political corruption a tariff involves. Imperialism without noble imaginations, it seemed to him, was simply nationalism with megalomania. It was swaggering, it was greed, it was German; its enthusiasm was forced, its nobility a vulgar lie. No.
I'm going to do it." "But, my dearest friend," I expostulated, "this is absurd. It's megalomania la folie des grandeurs." "It's the divinest folly in the world," said he. He threw a cigar stump into the fireplace and poured himself out and drank a stiff whisky and soda. Then he laughed in imitation of his familiar self. "You dear prim old prig of a Hilary, don't worry.
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