Female Quote by Otto Weininger

“The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and…” quote by Otto Weininger — Download Open image

“The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.”

Otto Weininger

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Female Genius He man Inevitable Intelligence Men Universe Whole

More by Otto Weininger

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

Otto Weininger

Image

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…

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

Image

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

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…

Otto Weininger

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Otto Weininger

Image

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

Otto Weininger

Image

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…

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 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…

Otto Weininger

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

Otto Weininger

Image

Explore all 59 Otto Weininger quotes

More Female quotes

“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by…

Abhijit Naskar

Image

If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had…

Dwayne McDuffie

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

Kate Zambreno

Image

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was…

George Orwell

Image

I really think there's no difference between an art piece made by a man and one made by a woman. Is it a good…

Marina Abramovic

Image

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The…

Jerry Saltz

Image

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Kathy Acker

Image

I'd like to do some female roles again.

John Cameron Mitchell

Image

So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the…

Bayard Taylor

Image

I think Gypsy [Rose Lee] would be appalled at today's rawer, more blatant displays of the female form. She was, in her own way,…

Karen Abbott

Image

Daily contact with some teachers is itself all-sided ethical education for the child without a spoken precept. Here, too, the real advantage of male over female teachers,especially for boys, is seen in their superior physical strength,which often, if highly estimated, gives real dignity and commands real respect, and especially in the unquestionably greater uniformity of their moods and their discipline.

G. Stanley Hall