Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society.
Pessimist philosophy
Man is at bottom a savage, horrible beast. We know it, if we look at the origin of society.
Pessimist philosophy
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. II, Chapter 12, 'On the Suffering of the World'
1851
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