Sex And Character
Otto WeiningerSözler ve Alıntılar
Rita: We are creatures of the earth, after all.
Allmers: We have some kinship with sea and heavens too, Rita.
Rita: You, perhaps. Not I.
Sayfa 261 - Ibsen Little Eyolf'un güzel bir pasajı:
The old maid is the woman who is no longer encountered by a man who creates her.
Sayfa 310 - Benzer bi tema Miyazaki'nin bir filminde de vardı: Howl's Moving Castle
The education received by Woman today is not of the kind that would prompt Woman to decide to overcome her true bondage and that would make it easier for her to do so.
Sayfa 313
In the Christian, pride and humility, in the Jew, superciliousness and groveling are in conflict with each other, as are self-assurance and contrition in the former, and arrogance and devotion in the latter.
Sayfa 283 - "The Jew’s lack of understanding of the idea of mercy is connected with his total lack of humility."
All human beings have their own specific “taste” as far as the opposite sex is concerned. If, for example, we compare the portraits of the women who are known to have been loved by any famous man in history, we almost always ¤nd that there is an almost constant likeness between all of them.
Sayfa 28
The occurrence of intermediate sexual forms is determined by the different degrees of original sexual characteristics in conjunction with the inner secretions (which probably vary in quality and quantity in each individual).
Sayfa 24 - That such limits exist is also shown by the existence of sexual differences before puberty.
She only really likes to follow, and as she waits for a man she is only waiting for the moment when she can be completely passive. But women borrow their beliefs and their ideas not only from their “own” man (although they would like that best), but also from their fathers and mothers, their uncles and aunts, their brothers and sisters, their near relatives and distant acquaintances, and they are glad if an opinion is created for them.
Sayfa 237