Otto Weininger

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

— Otto Weininger

No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For,…

— 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…

— Otto Weininger

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

— Otto Weininger

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of…

— Otto Weininger

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

— 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…

— Otto Weininger

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

— Otto Weininger

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

— Otto Weininger

Everything evil is revenge.

— Otto Weininger

The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have…

— Otto Weininger

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star…

— Otto Weininger

To understand a man is really to be that man.

— Otto Weininger

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

— Otto Weininger

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it…

— Otto Weininger

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

— Otto Weininger

There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they…

— Otto Weininger

As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more…

— Otto Weininger

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the…

— Otto Weininger

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the…

— Otto Weininger

“No one can understand himself, for to do that he would have to get outside himself; the subject of the knowing and…

— Otto Weininger

Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,…

— Otto Weininger