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{{Quote|"Women ... are capable of committing the worst atrocities. . If war broke out between men and women, it would be quite a different business from the struggles we have seen between nobles and the people, or whites and blacks".}} | {{Quote|"Women ... are capable of committing the worst atrocities. . If war broke out between men and women, it would be quite a different business from the struggles we have seen between nobles and the people, or whites and blacks".}} | ||
{{Quote|"Nothing is more imperious ... than weakness when it knows it is backed by strength; look at women".}} | {{Quote|"Nothing is more imperious ... than weakness when it knows it is backed by strength; look at women".}} | ||
==1772-1801: Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (Novalis)== | |||
{{Quote|"Man must control his nature and secure right and mastery for the individual in himself – mastery of the will is proper to him. Woman must obey nature – constrain her individuality – her sensation must determine her will. [...] She must have a subordinated will, he must have a subordinated sensation. (He simplifies the universal, she universalizes the singular.) He and she both serve reason—He is the ideal of content—She is the soul of form."|Novalis 2003, ''Fichte Studies'', trans. J Kneller, Cambridge University Press, NY, pp. 157-158}} | |||
{{Quote|"The man obeys himself as object – the woman as subject. The man must transform his sensations into concepts, the woman her concepts into sensations. The concept does not deceive him, sensation does not deceive her."|''ibid'', p. 159}} | |||
{{Quote|"The morality of the woman is grounded in feeling – as the morality of the man is grounded in reason."|''ibid'', p. 174}} | |||
{{Quote|"The hero is lyrical, the ordinary person epic, the genius dramatic - man is lyrical , woman epic, marriage dramatic."|Novalis 1997, 'Philological Fragments' in M Mahony Stoljar (ed.), ''Novalis: Philosophical Writings'', State University of New York Press, NY, p. 65.}} | |||
{{Quote|"The most depraved fellow is not so different from the most worthy man as the wretched hussy is from a noble woman. And is it not also that one finds very much good spoken of men but nothing good of women yet."|Novalis 1997, 'Teplitz Fragments' in M Mahony Stoljar (ed.), ''Novalis: Philosophical Writings'', State University of New York Press, NY, p. 104.}} | |||
{{Quote|"Charcoal and diamonds are one substance - and yet how different. Should it not be the same with man and woman. We are made of clay and women are jewels and sapphires that also consist of clay."|''ibid'', p. 105}} | |||
{{Quote|"The more energetically that which is to be eaten resists, the livelier will the flame of the moment of enjoyment be. Application to oxygen. Rape is the most intense kind of enjoyment. Woman is our oxygen."|Novalis 1997, 'General Draft' in M Mahony Stoljar (ed.), ''Novalis: Philosophical Writings'', State University of New York Press, NY, p. 124.}} | |||
{{Quote|"Is woman the purpose of man and is woman without purpose?"|''ibid'', p. 165}} | |||
==1788–1860: [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]== | ==1788–1860: [[Arthur Schopenhauer]]== | ||
{{Quote|"Taken as a whole, women are . . . thorough-going philistines, and quite incurable."}} | {{Quote|"Taken as a whole, women are . . . thorough-going philistines, and quite incurable."}} | ||