The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reason and mental powers hardly before the age of eight-and-twenty; a woman when she is eighteen; but then it is only a woman's reason. That is why women remain children their whole life long, never seeing anything but what is before their eyes, clinging to the present, taking appearance for reality, and preferring trifles to the most important concerns.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Modern
Pessimist philosophy
