Otto Weininger Quotes
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There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between…
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even…
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The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness…
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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,…
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A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning…
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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…
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The Jew is an inborn Communist.
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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…
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Sending children away to get control of their anger perpetuates the feeling of 'badness" inside them...Chances are they were already feeling not very good about…
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Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.
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The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
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Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames…
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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 about…
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Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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