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Quotation from Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man's character, as my readers are aware, assuredly comes to him from his father”
Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Government', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897)
Schopenhauer's theory that character is inherited from the father and intellect from the mother, used here to defend hereditary nobility.
Citation: "A man's character, as my readers are aware, assuredly comes to him from his father" — Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, On Human Nature, 'Government', trans. T. Bailey Saunders (1897). (id essays-and-aphorisms-q8)
Portrait: Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b, Johann Schäfer, Public domain.
