Family Quotes by Otto Weininger

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

— Otto Weininger

“Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.”

— Otto Weininger

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

“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

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

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

“No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them”

— Otto Weininger

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

— Otto Weininger

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

“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

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

— Otto Weininger