Venus in Furs
deserves to be whipped.
“The blows, as you see, have agreed with me; the roseate supersensual
mist has dissolved, and no one can ever make me believe again that
these ‘sacred apes of Benares’6 or Plato’s rooster7 are the image of
God.”
[Footnote 6: One of Schopenhauer’s designations for women.]
[Footnote 7: Diogenes threw a plucked rooster into Plato’s school and
exclaimed: “Here you have Plato’s human being.”]