Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation. (Arthur Schopenhauer)

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received. Of itself it has nothing but the empty forms of its operation.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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