Re: Wisdom - 3

Is it ever foolish to select a sexual partner? It might be foolish to
make it a long term thing, but that's another matter...There's a nice
quote, I foget from where, 'men don't pay women to sleep with them,
they pay them to go away afterwards'.

Schopenahuer also has nice quotes on this subject:

'The notion of an endless bliss with the possession of a definite
woman, and an unutterable pain with the thought that this possession
is not attainable ... cannot draw their material from the needs of an
ephemeral individual ... The species alone has infinite life, and is
therefore capable of infinite desire, infinite satisfaction, and
infinite sufferings. But these are here imprisoned in the narrow
breast of a mortal; no wonder, therefore, when such a breast seems
ready to burst, and can find no expression for the infinite rapture or
infinite pain with which it is filled.'

After the 'act of love':

'The individual falls back into his original narrowness and neediness
.... nothing has resulted for his pleasure but what is afforded by any
sexual satisfaction ... he finds himself no happier than before ...he has
been the dupe of the will of the species.'

'Only the male intellect, clouded by the sexual impulse, could call
the undersized, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped, and short-legged sex
the fair sex; for in this impulse is to be found its whole beauty.'





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