Otto Weininger

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


— Otto Weininger


#inspirational #science #humor

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.


— Otto Weininger


#conquering #genius #mystery

Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.


— Otto Weininger


#atonement #equally #eternal #every #fault

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.


— Otto Weininger


#also #among #burn #compared #enemy

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.


— Otto Weininger


#fate #how #many #matter #struggle

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 the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.


— Otto Weininger


#appreciation #because #fixed #himself #man

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.


— Otto Weininger


#longer #madness #runs #which

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 them.


— Otto Weininger


#deeply #despise #either #high #men






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degree. On October 3 he took a room in the house in Schwarzspanierstraße 15 where Ludwig van Beethoven died. However Wittgenstein's deep admiration of Weininger's thought was coupled with a fundamental disagreement with his position.

Otto Weininger (April 3 1880 – October 4 1903) was a Christian Austrian philosopher. Today Weininger is generally viewed as misogynistic and antisemitic in academic circles[page needed] but was held to be a great genius by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the writer August Strindberg (see discussion below).