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Contents Introduction by the translators ________________________________________ ii Aphoristic remarks ___________________________________________________1 Last Aphorisms _____________________________________________________29 Notebook __________________________________________________________41 Otto Weininger’s Letters to Arthur Gerber______________________________73 August Strindberg’s Letters about Weininger ____________________________92 Appendix – The German Text _________________________________________96 Aphoristisch-Gebliebenes ___________________________________________98 Letzte Aphorismen _______________________________________________121 Taschenbuch ____________________________________________________130 Briefe __________________________________________________________154 Briefe - Otto Weiningers___________________________________________154 Briefe – August Strindbergs________________________________________171
Acknowledgements When we first decided to translate those of Weininger’s writings that had not yet been translated into English, we suspected that if we didn’t then nobody else would. Since then, we discovered that Professor Steven Burns from Dalhousie University in Canada had already embarked on a translation of Über die letzten Dinge (which he translates as “On Last Things”, but which can also be translated “On Ultimate Things”), and was much further advanced in that process than we were. Enormously impressed with his work after reading an impeccable translation of a chapter from Über die letzten Dinge published some ten years earlier, we decided to share with him what translations we had already made of that work, and focus the remainder of our efforts on the Taschenbuch (literally, “Pocketbook”) instead. We would like to thank Therese Foote for providing us with excellent quality translations of some of the “Aphoristic remarks”. Albina Leibman-Klix helped us with some of the “Notebook” aphorisms, and Marco de Innocentis translated the Italian in Weininger’s letters. We are also deeply indebted to Steven Burns whose work helped us to vastly improve our translation of the aphorisms from On Last Things, and Allan Janik, and his assistant Judith Bakascy, who helped with the “Notebook” and “Letters”. Any inaccuracies that remain in this translation are a result of our own shortcomings. i
Page 1 and 2: OTTO WEININGER COLLECTED APHORISMS,
Page 6 and 7: Introduction by the translators Ott
Page 8 and 9: Motto: Every true, eternal problem
Page 10 and 11: What also always leads to determini
Page 12 and 13: Pleasure is the mental correlate of
Page 14 and 15: Murder is a self-justification of t
Page 16 and 17: ------------ Every sickness is crim
Page 18 and 19: ------------ The murderer is deterr
Page 20 and 21: The other possibility is that the p
Page 22 and 23: ecause it is the most ethical. ----
Page 24 and 25: ------------ All words that are con
Page 26 and 27: found both; but masochism predomina
Page 28 and 29: only the mental become unconscious,
Page 30 and 31: thoroughly uncertain and, at the ve
Page 32 and 33: It also happens that someone impres
Page 34 and 35: Problem of two people, Problem of t
Page 36 and 37: egion), would have to feel more ash
Page 38 and 39: ------------ To the devil, everythi
Page 40 and 41: As the sun darkened, Christ’s spi
Page 42 and 43: ------------ All animals are symbol
Page 44 and 45: The criminal invents the snake and
Page 46 and 47: Epilepsy enters when a person says
Page 48 and 49: ------------ The Jew does not burde
Page 50 and 51: diagnostician, and thereby already
Page 52 and 53: The Nature of the Sciences I. The s
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possibilities. The ideas of freedom
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Himself must not suffer at all unde
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Jewishness, baseness and stupidity.
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Thirst for glory and immortality. T
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The mirror is the surrogate for the
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Freedom and universality - power an
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The stars laugh no more; to desire
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of some kind of unconsciousness (of
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Eudyptes chrysocoma 40 is a problem
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artificially induced diarrhoea (esp
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Whoever lies, is not. The snake and
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The psycho-physical parallelism gra
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Vanity is : To want to count in the
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Man realises his own essence throug
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Cher coquin cadet! 45 * 10th July,
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Dear friend! Bayreuth, 8th August,
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One thing: Write and say nothing to
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also ashamed when you are drawn to
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* Christiania, Friday, 22nd August,
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Dear friend! * (Postmark: 13th Sept
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Vienna, 18th October, 1902 Best tha
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Syracuse, 3rd August, 1903 Instead
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Write to me about how you are doing
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I was at the point of doing the sam
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In death
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Motto: Jedes wahre, ewige Problem i
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Also für Zukunft wie für Vergange
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------------ Kennt die Pflanze Lust
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allein aufgezogen und erzogen werde
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Ursache - Wirkung Mittel - Zweck
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Der Dualismus liegt darin, daß wir
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Alle Schuld sucht von selbst sich z
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Last, Leder, Lernen, lahm, letum, l
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geglaubt wird; Beweis sein Verhält
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------------ Was ein guter Musiker
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Die Megäre ist nicht, wie ich glau
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Problem der zwei Menschen, Problem
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Letzte Aphorismen Krankheit und Ein
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Der Greis ist eine falsche Ewigkeit
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------------ Der gleichförmig besc
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Epilepsie tritt nach Verschlucken a
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Jüdisch ist es, anderem (dem Chris
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Ich glaube, daß sicher meine Geist
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Wenn alles psychische Leben nur sch
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In der Beziehung zum Ethischen wird
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Jüdisches, Gemeinheit und Dummheit
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Der eitle Mensch ist in gleich hohe
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Sache: er malt die Sintflut, das Er
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Schlange und Hund haben Verwandtes.
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Die Wolken verdecken das Licht. Das
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Verstopfung ist kennzeichnend für
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Die alte Jungfer ist das Nichts, da
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Der Jude ist von Anfang an; und doc
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Jeder Erkenntnis ist Wiedergeburt.
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Cher coquin cadet! 10. Juli 1902 Ha
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Lieber Freund! Bayreuth, 8. August
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Sind die B.s in P.? (Entschuldige!
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Hast Du meine Stenographie lesen k
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werde ich erfüllen: Du wirst, wie
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Lieber Freund! R. hat mir gestern a
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Auch ich habe einen Monat Tag und N
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Reggio (Kalabrien), 22. August 1903
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Herr Doktor! Briefe August Strindbe
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Es war so geschrieben. Stockholm, 8
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