Arthur Schopenhauer — "The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. …"

The fundamental defect of the female character is a lack of a sense of justice. This originates first and foremost in their want of rationality and capacity for reflexion but it is strengthened by the fact that, as the weaker sex, they are driven to rely not on force but on cunning: hence their instinctive subtlety and their ineradicable tendency to tell lies.
Arthur Schopenhauer — Arthur Schopenhauer Modern · Pessimist philosophy

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Essay 'On Women'

Date: 1851

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