In those rare individual cases where women approach genius they also approach masculinity.
Otto WeiningerIt is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.
Otto WeiningerMankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself, which, in the deepest interpretation, is the absolute, is God. Man in his highest form, the genius, has such a relation, and for him the absolute is either the conception of the highest worth of existence, in which case he is a philosopher; or it is the wonderful fairyland of dreams, the kingdom of absolute beauty, and then he is an artist.
Otto Weininger