Third proposition. To invent fables about a world “other” than this one has no meaning at all, unless an instinct of slander, detraction, and suspicion against life has gained the upper hand in us: in that case, we avenge ourselves against life with a phantasmagoria of “another,” a “better” life. [Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Reason in Philosophy,” 1889, sec. 6. (Kaufmann trans.).]
From this Weininger might have gotten the idea of Nietzsche’s femininity. Despite himself, Nietzsche deftly argues the feminist case on this matter of the transmundane—as some women have noted.
