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“There are transitional forms between the metals and non-metals; between chemical combinations and simple mixtures, between animals and plants, between phanerogams and cryptogams, and between mammals and birds [...]. The improbability may henceforth be taken for granted of finding in Nature a sharp cleavage between all that is masculine on the one side and all that is feminine on the other; or that any living being is so simple in this respect that it can be put wholly on one side, or wholly on the other, of the line.”

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Otto Weininger
Otto Weininger

Otto Weininger was an Austrian philosopher born on April 3, 1880, and died on October 4, 1903. His thoughts mainly revolve around gender, aesthetics, and ethics, and have had a profound impact on philosophy and psychology in the following years. more

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