In order to depict a man one must understand him, and to understand him one must be like him; in order to portray his psychological activities one must be able to reproduce them in oneself. To understand a man one must have his nature in oneself.
Otto Weininger
Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.
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The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Man must act in such a way that the whole of his individuality lies in each moment.
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That is why man can also never understand himself: For he is himself a timeless act; an act which he performs continuously, and there is no moment in which he might not perform it, as there would have to be to understand himself.
If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedom from it.
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To understand a man is really to be that man.
The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his.. Genius.
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A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.
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A man is himself important precisely in proportion that all things seem important to him.
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher,.. Deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.
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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.
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