“Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself.” — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself. There… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. — Otto Weininger Copy Share
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
“Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.” — Otto Weininger Copy Share
No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them; men either despise women or they have never thought seriously… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
“Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his ... genius. — Otto Weininger Copy Share
Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them” — Otto Weininger Copy Share
With ordinary men the moments which are united in a close continuity out of the original discrete multiplicity are very few, and the course… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
“Napoleon, the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and therefore, not geniuses. One can understand… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind. — Otto Weininger Copy Share
The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also… — Otto Weininger Copy Share
