There is, moreover, very little sense in preventing young people from giving expression to their ideas on the pretext that they have less experience than have older persons. There are many who may live a thousand years without encountering experience of any value. It could only be in a society of persons equally gifted that such an idea could have any meaning.
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 t… - 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, which, in t…
- 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 from being th… - 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 from being th…
Everything evil is revenge. - Otto Weininger
Everything evil is revenge.
The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individua… - Otto Weininger
The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individua…
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… - 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…
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity. - Otto Weininger
In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death. - Otto Weininger
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement. - Otto Weininger
Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life. - Otto Weininger
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
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