Otto Weininger Quotes

"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
(Related: Life, Enemy, Fire)

"Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement."
- Otto Weininger
(Related: Fault, Improvement)

"Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle."
- Otto Weininger
(Related: Fate, Struggle)

"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
(Related: Men, Women, Thought, Opinion)

"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
(Related: Women, Appreciation, Man, Sense, Sky, Stars)

"The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius."
- Otto Weininger
(Related: Genius, Madness)