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 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
p. 139.
„In the case of complex personalities the matter stands thus: one of these can understand other men better than they can understand themselves, because within himself he has not only the character he is grasping, but also its opposite. Duality is necessary for observation and comprehension.“
— Otto Weininger
pp. 109-110.
