Frasi di Otto Weininger
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.
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psicologo e filosofo austriacoFrasi Otto Weininger
„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
„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
„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.
„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
pp. 114-115.
„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.
„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 theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.“
— Otto Weininger
p. 112.
„That which enables man to have a real relation to truth and which removes his temptation to lie, must be something independent of all time, something absolutely unchangeable, which as faithfully reproduces the old as if it were new, because it is permanent itself; it can only be that source in which all discrete experiences unite and which creates from the first a continuous existence. It is what produces the feeling of responsibility which oppresses all men, young and old, as to their actions, which makes them know that they are responsible, which leads to the phenomena of repentance and consciousness of sin, which calls to account before an eternal and ever present self things that are long past, its judgment being subtler and more comprehensive than that of any court of law or of the laws of society, and which is exerted by the individual himself quite independently of all social codes (so condemning the moral psychology which would derive morality from the social life of man).“
— Otto Weininger
p. 151.
„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.
