Top 35 Otto Weininger Quotes
#1. Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
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#2. Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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#3. Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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#4. Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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#5. In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.
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#6. A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
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#7. Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.
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#8. In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
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#9. Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness inside them ... Chances are they were already feeling not very good about themselves before the outburst and the isolation just serves to confirm in their own minds that they were right.
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#11. A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
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#13. A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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#14. An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
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#15. It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
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#16. Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.
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#18. The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
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#19. Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.
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#20. Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
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#21. In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
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#22. The danger of insanity is always present in those who try to penetrate the discipline of logic and pure knowledge.
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#23. No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them
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#24. The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.
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#25. Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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#27. The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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#28. Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.
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#29. The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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#30. Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself
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#31. There are men who are willing to marry a woman they do not care about merely because she is admired by other men. Such a relation exists between many men and their thoughts.
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#32. Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.
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#33. The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.
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#34. Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type.
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#35. A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.
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