Otto Weininger Quotes

I think that 'City of Heavenly Fire' is definitely a book where all the characters are tested to their limits, and they have to make really significant choices about who they are and who they wanna be.

A lot of people don't believe there's evil. If there's good in this world, then you're being intellectually dishonest, if you believe there's a good power, you've also got to believe there's an evil power, too. There are physical laws that are in place.

I am my favourite villain!

How can one love the light and live in darkness?

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.

And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.

Either a beast or a god.

But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Two hands. One to destroy, the other to save. Which had he lost?

You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn't make a mockery of your values.

Bhuta ia, dewa ia. (Bali expression meaning Man is a demon, man is a god.)

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence.

Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.

I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.

Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.

To forgive or not to forgive... are those my only choices?

Whoever is a hypocrite in his religion mocks God, presenting to Him the outside and reserving the inward for his enemy.

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.

I don't want to be lofty when I say this, but I don't know what a success is any more. I know how we define it, but that was a moment where I went, "Wait, who am I?" You could feel the business, in particular, kind of go "He's all right, let's go over here." I started to go, "Wait, I know why I love to do this." I think I got off track in why I love to do it.

a public persona that might be different from what we truly feel inside... everyone wonders if they are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, no matter how old they are. It is an archetypical moral dilemma - Do you act like yourself and risk becoming an outcast?