Essays of Schopenhauer, by Arthur Schopenhauer : Metaphysics of Love

Sic visum Veneri; cui placet imp ars Formas atque animos wedge shape juga aenea Saevo mittere cum joco. The terra firma for this is, that she is not ascertaind by adroit considerations, only by something all different, namely, instinct. Marriage is not regarded as a means for intellectual entertainment, nevertheless for the extension of children; it is a jointure of hearts and not of minds. When a muliebrity says that she has fallen in sleep with with a mans mind, it is either a vain and miserable pretence on her part or the exaggeration of a degenerate being. A man, on the different hand, is not controlled in instinctive love by the qualities of the fair sexs reference ; this is why so many a Socrates has found his Xantippe, as for instance, Shakespeare, Albrecht Durer, Byron, and others. But present(predicate) we contribute the mold of intellectual qualities, because they are inherited from the come; nevertheless their influence is easily overpowered by physica l beauty, which business concerns much essential points, and consequently has a more than unionize effect. By the way, it is for this reason that mothers who have either matte up or go through the former influence have their daughters taught the ok arts, languages, etc. so that they may elicit more attractive. In this way they promise by substitute means to embellish the intellect, just as they do their bust and hips if it is necessary to do so. Let it be understood that here we are exclusively speaking of that regard which is absolutely direct and instinctive, and from which springs real love. That an well-grounded and educated woman esteems intelligence and brains in a man, and that a man by and by deliberate ratiocination criticises and considers the character of his bride-to-be . are matters which do not concern our present subject. such things influence a rational endurance in marriage, but they do not control overzealous love, which is our matter. \n