Arthur Schopenhauer — "It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual instinct that could …"

It is only the man whose intellect is clouded by his sexual instinct that could give that stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged race the name of the fair sex; for the entire beauty of the sex is based on this instinct. One would be more justified in calling them the unaesthetic sex than the beautiful.
Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer Modern · Pessimist philosophy

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Essay 'On Women'

Date: 1851

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