Otto Weininger citáty
Otto Weininger
Datum narození: 3. duben 1880
Datum úmrtí: 4. říjen 1903
Otto Weininger byl rakouský filosof a spisovatel židovského původu. V roce 1903 vydal knihu Pohlaví a charakter, která získala popularitu po jeho sebevraždě ve věku 23 let. Dnes je Weininger v akademických kruzích obecně vnímán jako misogyn a antisemita, ale filosof Ludwig Wittgenstein a spisovatel August Strindberg ho považovali za velkého génia.
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„Most of the time man does not do what he wills, but what he has willed. Through his decisions, he always gives himself only a certain direction, in which he then moves until the next moment of reflection. We do not will continuously, we only will intermittently“
— Otto Weininger
Context: Most of the time man does not do what he wills, but what he has willed. Through his decisions, he always gives himself only a certain direction, in which he then moves until the next moment of reflection. We do not will continuously, we only will intermittently, piece by piece. We thus save ourselves from willing: principle of the economy of the will. But the higher man always experiences this as thoroughly immoral.
„The logical axioms are the principle of all truth. These posit an existence towards which all cognition serves. Logic is a law which must be obeyed, and man realises himself only in so far as he is logical. He finds himself in cognition. All error must be felt to be crime. And so man must not err. He must find the truth.“
— Otto Weininger
p. 158.
„Man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. He has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else; he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone. Thus he becomes one and all.“
— Otto Weininger
[Paraphrasing Kant] p. 162.
„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.“
— Otto Weininger
p. 121.
