Otto Weininger Quotes about Genius

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

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

Genius, Individual, Cases

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.

Otto Weininger

America, Genius, Morality

Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Otto Weininger

Men, Genius, Conscious

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.113, Рипол Классик

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.

Otto Weininger

Men, Female, Genius

Otto Weininger (1907). “Sex & Character”

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

Otto Weininger

Genius, Chaos, Mystery

"Sex & Character".

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

Men, Special, Genius

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.112, Рипол Классик

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Otto Weininger

Genius, Kind, Masculinity

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.111, Рипол Классик

Talent is hereditary; it may be the common possession of a whole family (eg, the Bach family); genius is not transmitted; it is never diffused, but is strictly individual.

Otto Weininger

Genius, May, Common

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.103, Рипол Классик

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Otto Weininger

Men, Titles, Genius

"Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (pp. 139-140), 1906.

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Otto Weininger

Running, Genius, Madness

Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.184, Рипол Классик

The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. ... It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.

Otto Weininger

Reality, Doe, Genius

"Sex and Character" by Otto Weininger, (p. 139), 1906.

Otto Weininger Quotes about Genius

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