„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
Frasi di Otto Weininger
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Otto Weininger
Data di nascita:3. Aprile 1880
Data di morte:4. Ottobre 1903
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.
Frasi Otto Weininger
„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
„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
„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. There is this element in all the conquerors, great or small. Just because he had great gifts, greater than those of any emperor before him, he had greater difficulty in stifling the disapproving voice within him. The motive of his ambition was the craving to stifle his better self.“
— Otto Weininger
Sex and Character: An Investigation of Fundamental Principles
„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
„Only from within himself can a person know the depth of the world: in him lie the interconnections of the world.“
— Otto Weininger
Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend
„The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between male and female, between the race and the individual, between unworthiness and worth, between the earthly and the higher life, between negation and the 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
