Aphoristic Writings, Notebook, and Letters to a Friend, by Otto ...

OTTO WEININGER’S
NOTEBOOK
We know so little about the most sorrowful and confused period of Jesus’ life
because he himself, full of pain, was constantly silent about it – until the answer he
gave the angel who addressed him “Good Master”: “Why do you call me good?
Nowhere is there Good!” –
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Suicide from inability to achieve recovery from sickness is just as abandoning and
faithless as the suicide to escape sin is cowardly.
A man’s holding of suicide to be ever allowable, or always forbidden, can be
characteristic for whether he is actually superficial, or innately profound.
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I know, despite the small amount of positive recognition, that I am the founder of
the only healing scientific therapy, the only true pathology. I know this and have also
had the good fortune, against my expectations, to meet an exceptionally high-standing
person whom I have convinced, and who believes the same. Now the coming
centuries must testify it.
There is only psycho-therapy 33 , and certainly not that entirely deficient
psychotherapy from outside, which we have today, where the foreign will of a
suggester must accomplish that for which one’s own is all too weak; not an
heteronomous, but an autonomous hygiene and therapy, where each is his own
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Weininger hyphenates this word to stress “therapy of the psyche” (as opposed to therapy from
outside) [Trans].
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