Monday, 17 May 2010

The Wisdom of Arthur Schopenhauer:
"One needs only to see the way she is built to realise that woman is not intended for great mental or great physical labour."
"Women are suited to being the nurses and teachers of our earliest childhood precisely because they themselves are childish, silly and short-sighted,"
"Women think in their hearts that the man's business is to make the money and theirs is to spend it:"
"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:"
"Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex: ... More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they posess any real feeling or receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please."
"They are sexus sequuior, the inferior second sex in every respect: one should be indulgent towards their weaknesses, but to pay them honour is ridiculous beyond measure and demeans us even in their eyes."

I would recommend to anyone the entire essay 'On Women' - it reads like a joke, and it's much more amusing to imagine that it is.