The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only … - Otto Weininger

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Countless as the sands of sea are human passions, and not all of them are alike, and all of them, base and noble alike, are at first obedient to man and only later on become his terrible masters.

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 never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

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

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

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