„Malattia e solitudine sono affini. Alla minima malattia, l'uomo si sente ancora più solo di prima.“
— Otto Weininger
da Letzte Aphorismen, in Über die letzten Dinge, Braumüller, Vienna 1907
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Otto Weininger
Data di nascita: 3. Aprile 1880
Data di morte: 4. Ottobre 1903
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Otto Weininger è stato un filosofo austriaco.
Nel 1903 pubblicò Geschlecht und Charakter che divenne popolare dopo il suicidio di Weininger all'età di 23 anni. Tuttavia, continuò a essere apprezzato come lavoro geniale da molti altri, tra cui il filosofo Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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matematico, logico e filosofo austriacoFrasi Otto Weininger
„Qui a Siracusa sentii ier l'altro sera suonare dalla musica militare la Cavalleria rusticana, in un sito magico, sulla spiaggia del mar ionico illuminato dalla luna, fra la fonta Aretusa cinta di papiri, e le navi a vela del porto. Quando Mascagni la scrisse era «grande»…“
— Otto Weininger
da Sesso e carattere. Un 'indagine sui principi
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„Siracusa è il luogo più singolare della terra. Qui non potrei che nascere o morire – vivere mai.“
— Otto Weininger
da Lettere ad Arthur Gerber, Taccuino e lettere
„Da una stazione non si partirà mai per la libertà.“
— Otto Weininger
Source: Citato in Focus n. 89, p. 150.
„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
Collected Aphorisms, 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.
„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.“
— Otto Weininger
Sex and Character (1903), pp. 114-115.
„The psychical condition of men’s minds may be compared with a set of bells close together, and so arranged that in the ordinary man a bell rings only when one beside it sounds, and the vibration lasts only a moment. In the genius, when a bell sounds it vibrates so strongly that it sets in action the whole series, and remains in action throughout life. The latter kind of movement often gives rise to extraordinary conditions and absurd impulses, that may last for weeks together and that form the basis of the supposed kinship of genius with insanity.“
— Otto Weininger
Sex and Character (1903), pp. 122-123.
„Zola, who has so faithfully described the impulse to commit murder, did not himself commit a murder, because there were so many other characters in him. The actual murderer is in the grasp of his own disposition: the author describing the murder is swayed by a whole kingdom of impulses. Zola would know the desire for murder much better than the actual murderer would know it, he would recognise it in himself, if it really came to the surface in him, and he would be prepared for it. In such ways the criminal instincts in great men are intellectualised and turned to artistic purposes as in the case of Zola, or to philosophic purposes as with Kant, but not to actual crime.“
— Otto Weininger
Sex and Character (1903), p. 109.
„People should also not want to determine themselves causally in such a way: I will now … become good once and for all, and do good by nature, because I could not then do anything else. For through this one denies the freedom which can in each moment negate all the past. … One makes himself into an object when one establishes causality in that way; for a morality to which I have been compelled is already not a morality.“
— Otto Weininger
Collected Aphorisms
