Quotes by Otto Weininger

Otto Weininger

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

Consciousness

Lying

Standards

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

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

Firsts

Men

Self

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

Important

Men

Proportion

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

Lying

Stars

Stupid

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.

Fire

Flames

Oxygen

An individual’s arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

Arrogance

Individual

Self

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.

Men

Past

Remembrance

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

Chaos

Genius

Mystery

Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

Blue

Law

Yellow

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Evil

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Feelings

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Quotes by Otto Weininger

Otto Weininger

A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

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.

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

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

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.

An individual’s arrogance is always in proportion to his lack of self-assurance.

But the higher a man mounts, the greater may be his fall; all genius is a conquering of chaos, mystery.

Colour-blindness always extends to the complementary colours. Those who are red blind are also green blind; those who are blind to blue have no consciousness of yellow. This law holds good for all mental phenomena; it is a fundamental condition of consciousness.

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