Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger
Otto Weiningerwas an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter, which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. Today, Weininger is viewed as misogynistic and antisemitic in academic circles, but was held to be a great genius by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the writer August Strindberg...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth3 April 1880
CountryAustria
desire causes immortality
It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
self arrogance individual
An individual's arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.
genius kind masculinity
Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
genius may common
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, but is strictly individual.
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The Jew is an inborn Communist.
flames fire oxygen
Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself
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There are probably very few people who have not at some time of their lives had some quality of genius. If they have not had such, it is probable that they have also been without great sorrow or great pain. They would have needed only to live sufficiently intently for a time for some quality to reveal itself. The poems of first love are a case in point, and certainly such love is a sufficient stimulus.