The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Pessimist philosophy
The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
Pessimist philosophy
From 'The World as Will and Representation'
1818
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