Otto Weininger Short Quotes

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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

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An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

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Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.

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A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

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Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

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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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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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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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Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself. They celebrate their union by the highest service of truth.

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No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously about them.

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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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Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

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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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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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