“Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , book Parerga and Paralipomena

"Psychological Observations"
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Studies in Pessimism

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German philosopher 1788–1860

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