Nature of man Quotes by Otto Weininger

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Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has…

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

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No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a certain sense, it is certainly only "by suffering" that a man knows. If compassion is not itself clear, abstractly conceivable or visibly symbolic knowledge, it is, at any rate, the strongest impulse for the acquisition of…

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

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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…

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“Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand…

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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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Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed…

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

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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

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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…

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“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 is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of…

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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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