Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
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"No men who really think deeply about women retain a high opinion of them"
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
"Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type."
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
"The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworhtiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and God-like. Mankind has the choice to make. There are only two poles, and there is no middle way."
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
"Napoleon the greatest of the conquerors, is a sufficient proof that great men of action are criminals, and, therefore not geniuses. One can understand him by thinking of the tremendous intensity with which he tried to escape from himself."
Otto Weininger, Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles