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Otto Weininger (German: [ˈvaɪnɪŋɐ]; 3 April 1880 – 4 October 1903) was an Austrian philosopher. In 1903, he published the book Geschlecht und Charakter (Sex and Character), which gained popularity after his suicide at the age of 23. His ideas are misogynistic and antisemitic and parts of his rhetoric were used by the Nazi regime (while at the same time denouncing him). Weininger was a large influence on the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and the writer August Strindberg (see discussion below).

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The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Causality, Chooses, Doe, Man, Men, Take

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.

Compared, Fire, Flames, Like, Oxygen, Things

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.

Genius, May, Common, Transmitted, Hereditary

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

Determines, Fate, Matter, Struggle, Things

As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.

Endowment, Men, Past, Remembrance, Reproduce, Whole

A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

Firsts, Men, Reverence, Self, Stage, Things

A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.

Important, Man, Men, Precisely, Proportion

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 the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.

Man, Men, Object, Wish, Wishes, World

Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself

Duty, Ethics, Logic, Same

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. . . . It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

Concrete, Doe, Genius, Reality, Whilst

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Men, Special, Genius, Distinguishing, Everything

I regret that I must so continually use the word genius, as if that should apply only to a caste as well defined from those below as income-tax payers are from the untaxed. The word genius was very probably invented by a man who had small claims on it himself; greater men would have understood better what to be a genius really was, and probably they would have come to see that the word could be applied to most people. Goethe said that perhaps only a genius is able to understand a genius.

Men, People, Regret, Said, Understand, Use

In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.

Able, Activities, Men, Order, Portray, Understand

A genius has perhaps scarcely ever appeared amongst the negroes, and the standard of their morality is almost universally so low that it is beginning to be acknowledged in America that their emancipation was an act of imprudence.

America, Genius, Morality, Act, Beginning

The Jew is an inborn Communist.

Communist, Inborn, Jew

Everything evil is revenge.

Everything, Evil, Revenge

There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [. . . ]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.

Animal, Henceforth, Metals, Sharp, Simple, Taken

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.

Encountering, Expression, Ideas, Live, Preventing, Years

In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.

Cases, Genius, Individual, Rare, Women

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his. . . genius.

Aspects, Assumed, Measure, Men, Numbers, Taken

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