Arthur Schopenhauer:

Women are suited to being the nurses and teachers of our earliest childhood precisely because they themselves are childish, silly, and short-sighted.

— Arthur Schopenhauer Modern

Pessimist philosophy

Context

From 'On Women'

Date / Period

1851

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10732/10732-h/10732-h.htm

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