"Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear.”

“The auspices for philosophy are bad if, when proceeding ostensibly on the investigation of truth, we start saying farewell to all uprightness, honesty and sincerity, and are intent only on passing ourselves off for what we are not. We then assume, like those three sophists [Fichte, Schelling and Hegel], first a false pathos, then an affected and lofty earnestness, then an air of infinite superiority, in order to impose where we despair of ever being able to convince.”

“Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.”

“I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.”

“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”

“The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.”

“If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.”

“No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here.”

“None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.”