If man were not free, then he could not conceive of causality at all, and could not form any concept of it. Insight into lawfulness is already freedo… - Otto Weininger

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

The deepest, the intelligible, part of the nature of man is that part which does not take refuge in causality, but which chooses in freedom the good or the bad.

Great men take themselves and the world too seriously to become what is called merely intellectual. Men who are merely intellectual are insincere; they are people who have never really been deeply engrossed by things and who do not feel an overpowering desire for production. All that they care about is that their work should glitter and sparkle like a well-cut stone, not that it should illuminate anything. They are more occupied with what will be said of what they think than by the thoughts themselves.