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Otto Weininger on Intelligence

1880–1903 Austria

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Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.

Sex and Character (1903)

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Sex and Character (1903)

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Sex and Character (1903)

The number of different aspects that the face of a man has assumed may be taken almost as a physiognomical measure of his … genius.

Sex and Character (1903)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Otto Weininger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.