Sublime

‘Dominating oneself ought to become a sort of habit, a moral reflex acquired by a constant gymnastic of the will especially in the tiniest things: dress, conversation, the way one thinks.’[12]

As a result of Austria’s defeat combined with Woodrow Wilson’s doctrine of national self-determination and democratic ideology, a plethora of states weak in structure and inadequate in resources now faced Germany in Eastern and Central Europe. Any future resurgence of German military capacity would have to be defeated by a French offensive into the

So lenken sie ihren Blick vom Vielen weg auf das Eine, lassen alle Ambivalenzen hinter sich; das Zentrum ihrer Existenz ist geordnet und geradezu minimalistisch strukturiert, die Peripherie hingegen wirkt heillos überlaufen.