Otto Weininger Quotes
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.
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.
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
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.
A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
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.
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius.
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.
