57 Quotes by Otto Weininger

Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle.

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

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.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To understand a man is really to be that man.