With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their lives resembles a little brook, whereas with the genius it is more like a mighty river into which all the little rivulets flow from afar; that is to say, the universal comprehension of genius vibrates to no experience in which all the individual moments have not been gathered up and stored.


p. 124. - Sex and Character (1903)

Otto Weininger Quotes

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their...

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their...

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their...

With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course of their...