[the "woman question"] > "two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. i do not need to search for them and conjecture them as though they were veiled in obscurity, or were in a transcendent region beyond my horizon; i see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence." immanuel kant, "critique of practical reason", dialectic of pure practical reason. ``` > from a woman you can learn nothing of women. nietzsche. > woman does not betray her secret. kant. ``` > "[the] secret of the critique of practical reason is that man is alone in the world, in tremendous eternal isolation. he has no object outside himself; lives for nothing else...he is far removed from being the slave of his wishes, of his abilities, of his necessities; he stands far above social ethics; he is alone." otto weininger, "sex and character", pg.161. > "thus he becomes one and all; he has the law in him, and so he himself is the law, and no mere changing caprice. the desire is in him to be only the law...without afterthought or forethought. this is the awful conclusion, he has no longer the sense that there can be duty for him...nothing is superior to him, to the isolated absolute unity" id.
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