Arthur Schopenhauer:

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 Modern

Pessimist philosophy

Context

Essay 'On Women'

Date / Period

1851

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