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.

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).