“If we were to conduct the most hardened and callous optimist through hospitals, infirmaries, operating theatres, through prisons, torture-chambers, and slave-hovels, over battlefields and to places of execution; if we were to open to him all the dark abodes of misery, where it shuns the gaze of cold curiosity, and finally were to allow him to glance into the dungeon of Ugolino where prisoners starved to death, he too would certainly see in the end what kind of a world is this ‘meilleur des mondes possibles’. For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours?” ~Arthur Schopenhauer~
Posted on: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:00:00 +0000
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