"Many athletes have tremendous God-given gifts, but they don't focus on the development of those gifts. Who are these individuals? You've never heard of them - and you never will. It's true in sports and it's true everywhere in life. Hard work is the difference. Very hard work."

(John Wooden)

Ouranos Ouranos orbits outside the sphere of the classical planets and the thought form attributed to them. Thus it forms an ideal symbol for that which encompasses all the gods within its orbit: the magical personality. It represents the personality required to live as a magician. It's polar axis tilted at an eccentric angle symbolizes the delving into that which is weird, occult and perverse. Ouranos can also be thought of as the dark side of the Sun. (chaosmatrix.org, garden_hermes.php)

Neptune Neptune was the name that ancient Romans gave to the Greek god of the sea and earthquakes, Poseidon. Neptune had the reputation for having a violent temper. Tempests and earthquakes were a reflection of his furious rage. He was depicted as a bearded men holding a trident and seated in a seashell drawn by sea-horses. (windows2universe)

"The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture." (Camille Paglia)

"It is not only the "literal-prostitutes" who belong to the prostitute-type; very many so-called respectable girls and married women most embody the prostitute psychology."

"There are certainly no women absolutely devoid of all maternal instincts, although I confess that I have found more cases approaching the absolute prostitute than the absolute mother."

"In the prostitute sexual relations in themselves are the end. The absolute prostitute thinks only of the man. The absolute mother thinks only of the child."

"The absolute prostitute, on the other hand, even when she is still a child, dislikes children; later on, she may pretend to care for them as a means of attracting men through the idea of mother and child."

"Unlike the mothertype, the prostitute best understands a mans caprices and refinements."

"The prostitute strives to impose herself on the man, to receive everything from him."

"The prostitute is open-handed and lavish with food and luxury; the mother-type is stingy and mean."

"The prostitute is liable to delight in an antagonistic relation to the human race, and in her most distilled form, the prostitute-type exists completely outside the continuity of the race."

"The existence of the prostitute shows that Schopenhauer was pushing a generalisation too far when he declared that all sexuality had relation only to the future generation."

"The most highly developed women, mentally, those who have been lauded in poetry, belong to the prostitute category; to these, the Aspasia-type, must be added the women of the romantic school."

"Great men have always preferred women of the prostitute type."

"Although most men are certain that every woman can have her consummation only in motherhood, I must confess that the prostitute - not as a person, but as a phenomenon - is much more estimable in my opinion."

"The prostitute-type lives her own life exactly as she pleases, even although it may bring with it the punishment of exclusion from society. She is not so brave as the mother, it is true, being thoroughly cowardly; but she has the correlative of cowardice, impudence, and she is not ashamed of her shamelessness. She is naturally inclined to polygamy, and always ready to attract more men than the one who would suffice as the founder of a family. She gives free play to the fulfilment of her desire, and feels a queen, and her most ardent wish is for more power."

"It is easy to grieve or shock the motherly woman. However, no one can injure or offend the prostitute; for the mother has her honour to defend as the guardian of the species, whilst the prostitute has forsworn all social respect, and prides herself in her freedom."

"Just as the great conqueror believes that he confers a favour on any one to whom he talks, so also with the prostitute."

"There is a similarity between conquerers and courtesans; every politician is to a certain extent a tribune of the people, and that in itself implies a kind of prostitution."

"The fundamental idea of prostitution is much more mysterious, and no one can have meditated long on the subject without often doubting if it were possible to get an explanation."

"The prostitute is the great seductress of the world, the female Don Juan, the being in the woman that knows the art of love, that cultivates it, teaches it, and enjoys it."

"The prostitute is most attracted by a careless, idle, dissipated man. A man that has lost self-restraint repels the mother-woman, but is attractive to the prostitute. The diligent boy pleases the mother-woman, the idle and careless boy wins approval from the prostitute-type."

"There are analogies to prostitution, however, amongst male animals; one has only to think of the display and decoration of the peacock, of the shining glow-worm, of singing birds, of the love dances of many male birds."

"The motive that actuates the prostitute requires further investigation."

(Otto Weininger, Sex and Character)

"When you see your own likeness, you rejoice. But when you see your images which came into being before you, & which neither die or become manifest, how much will you have to bear!" (Thomas: 84)

"The relation of a motherly girl to her lover is interesting. Such a girl is inclined to be motherly towards the man she loves, especially towards that man who will afterwards become the father of her child; in fact, in a certain sense the man is her child."

"Motherliness, like sexuality, is not an individual relation. When a woman is motherly the quality will be exercised not only on the child of her own body, but towards all men."

"For the mother type, the interest in her own child may become all-absorbing and make her narrow, blind, and unjust in the event of a quarrel."

"The deepest nature of the mother-type reveals itself in this identity of the mother and loving wife; the mothers form the enduring root-stock of our race from which the individual man arises, and in the face of which he recognises his own impermanence."

"It is the permanence of the race that gives the mother her courage and fearlessness in contrast with the cowardliness and fear of the prostitute."

"The absolute mother stands in a persisting relation to hope; as she lives on through the race, she does not quail before death, whilst the prostitute has a lasting fear of it."

"The protective superiority of the mother extends itself to her lover; she understands all that is simple and naive and childlike in the adult male."

"The mother as the upholder of the race is friendly to all its members; it is only when there is an exclusive choice to be made between her child and others that she becomes hard and relentless; and so she can be both more full of love and more bitter than the prostitute."

"A good mother, with the greatest peace of mind and content, will slaughter fowl after fowl for her family. The mother of children is a cruel step- mother to all other living things."

"The mother takes care of the body, but does not trouble about the mind. The relation between mother and child remains material from the kissing and hugging of childhood to the protective care of maturity. All her devotion is for the success and prosperity of her child in material things."

"The widespread and exclusive honouring of the motherly woman, the type most upheld as the one and only possible one for women, is quite unjustified."

(Otto Weininger, Sex and Character)

That the human race should persist is of no interest whatever to reason; he who would perpetuate humanity would perpetuate the problem and the guilt, the only problem and the only guilt. The only true goal is divinity and the union of humanity with the Godhead; that is the real choice between good and evil, between existence and negation. The moral sanction that has been invented for coitus, in supposing that there is an ideal attitude to the act in which only the propogation of the race is thought of, is no sufficient defence. There is no such imperative in the mind of man; it is merely an ingenious defence of a desire, and there is the fundamental immorality in it, that the being to be created has no power of choice with regard to his parents. As for the sexual union in which the production of children is prevented, there is no possible justification.

Sexual union has no place in the idea of mankind, not because ascetism is a duty, but because in it woman becomes the object, the cause, and man does what he will with her, looks upon her merely as a "thing," not as a living human being with an inner, psychic, existence. And so man despises woman the moment coitus is over, and the woman knows that she is despised, even although a few minutes before she thought herself adored.

The only thing to be respected in man is the idea of mankind; this disparagement of woman (and himself), induced by coitus, is the surest proof that it is opposed to that idea of mankind. Any one who is ignorant of what this Kantian "idea of mankind" means, may perhaps understand it when he thinks of his sisters, his mother, his female relatives; it concerns them all: for our own sakes, then, woman ought to be treated as human, respected and not degraded, all sexuality implying degradation.

But man can only respect woman when she herself ceases to wish to be object and material for man; if there is any question of emancipation it should be the emancipation from the prostitute element. It has never until now been made clear where the bondage of woman lies; it is in the sovereign, all too welcome power wielded on them by the Phallus. There can be no doubt that the men who have really desired the true emancipation of women are the men who are not very sexual, who have no great craving for love, who are not very profound, but who are men of noble and spiritual minds.

(Otto Weininger, Sex and Character)