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Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2 QUOTES

Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2 QUOTES

1 " Voltaire exclaims: ‘Oh metaphysics! We have come precisely as far as in the time of the early Druids.’c But what other science has always had, like it, the constant handicap of an antagonist ex officio, an appointed fiscal prosecutor, and a king’s champion in full armour who attack it defenceless and unarmed? It will never reveal its true powers or be able to take its giant strides as long as it is expected to conform, under threat, to the dogmas that accrue to the ever so tiny capacity of the great mob. First they bind our arms, and then they mock us for not being able to achieve anything. "

― Arthur Schopenhauer , Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol. 2