Schopenhauer WARNED MEN! about Women but it fell on deaf ears
- Marcus Nikos
- Apr 18
- 9 min read

a man can be himself only so long as he
is alone If he loves he ceases to be
what he is Arthur
Schopenhau There comes a moment a silent
soulsplitting moment in every man's life
when the illusions begin to crack He
looks at the very things he once chased
with blind devotion Love companionship
the dream of a future shared with
someone who whispers promises of
understanding But what if all of it was
a lie arthur Schopenhau didn't just
question it He dismantled it This was a
man who peered into the dark machinery
of human desire and refused to look away
To him romance was not salvation It was
seduction by nature itself A trap a
beautifully wrapped prison What the
world celebrates as love he called
delusion What most hail as intimacy he
revealed as biology dressed in the robes
of fantasy and what you think is
connection He saw it for what it truly
is suffering in disguise To Schopenhau
the fundamental difference between man
and woman was not just physical It was
metaphysical Man strives for ideals
ideas philosophies and creation Woman he
said cleaves to the immediate the
practical the survivalist instinct In
his words women remain children their
whole lives They never see anything
except what is closest to them Cleave to
the present moment Take the appearance
of a thing for reality For him this was
not an insult but an observation a lens
into the mind of nature itself And what
then is beauty according to Schopenhau
it is a mask nothing more A biological
bait designed to seduce to disarm and
ultimately to capture the mind of man He
believed a woman's beauty was not a gift
to the world but a trap meant to weaken
a man's judgment to pull him from his
pursuits and reduce him to a servant of
his own urges And it works Time and
again men builders of empires shapers of
history warriors of principle have
fallen not to armies not to ideas but to
the soft voice and gentle touch of a
woman they could never truly understand
Schopenhauer argued that women lacking
the power to impose force or shape grand
ideas instead mastered the art of
subtlety Their power was quiet but
effective an influence not over the
battlefield but over the bedroom the
household and the very desires of men
Where men built the world women shaped
the men who built it through charm
through emotion through need And yet
society romanticizes this calls it love
pretends it is sacred But to Schopenhau
it was a transaction dressed in poetry a
biological imperative cloaked in sacred
vows Love he wrote is not what it
appears to be It is not the meeting of
souls or the destiny of hearts It is a
trick The will to life he called it
acting blindly through us to continue
the species And it does not care about
your peace of mind your personal
happiness or your ambitions It only
cares that you reproduce And to achieve
that it whispers fantasies into your
heart and shows you illusions through
your eyes It tells you she's different
It convinces you that this time it's
real And by the time you see the truth
you've already surrendered Schopenhau
saw marriage not as a sacred bond but as
the final act in a man's downfall a
legally binding illusion a contract
signed with hope but paid in regret He
believed that once a man succumbed to
the spell of beauty and promise he was
no longer free Marriage was not about
love It was a biological strategy of
nature to ensure reproduction And the
man blinded by emotion was reduced to a
beast of burden He works He sacrifices
He bends his will not for glory or
meaning but to sustain a structure that
often leaves him empty drained and
chained And when the beauty fades when
the enchantment wears off what remains
often resentment silence a quiet
disillusionment
The very freedom he once possessed the
freedom to think to build to roam the
world in search of truth is replaced
with duty responsibility and routine
Schopenhau wrote "Marriage is a trap set
by nature The will to live wrapped in
illusion and the bait a woman's smile
her softness the promise of connection
But beneath it all," he argued is
instinct survival
repetition This isn't hatred This is
warning He viewed women not as villains
but as unconscious agents of nature's
design Their aim is not personal malice
It is fulfillment of their biological
imperative To seek security to ensure
their own survival and the survival of
their offspring And to do so Schopenhau
claimed women developed a superior skill
set in emotional influence Not logic not
strength but persuasion cunning
intuition And it's in this space this
emotional battlefield where so many men
lose not because they are weaker but
because they are unaware They fight with
logic in a realm ruled by instinct They
reason where they should resist
Schopenhau saw that in this arrangement
men often become pawns They build the
house but it is no longer theirs They
strive in their careers only to hand
over the fruits They dream but their
dreams become diluted by the weight of
obligation And all the while they
convince themselves this is fulfillment
that the sacrifice is noble even
necessary But beneath it many feel the
knowing ache of something lost A voice
they no longer hear A fire that no
longer burns A version of themselves
buried under layers of compromise He
warned of this fate Not to condemn women
but to awaken men To open their eyes to
the forces at play to see through the
veil before it's too late He spoke to
men not as enemies of women but as
seekers of truth Because in Schopenhau's
philosophy it is not woman that destroys
man It is man's ignorance of woman His
romanticized delusions His failure to
understand what drives the dance of
attraction and what it often costs him
The tragedy then is not that men love It
is that they love blindly That they give
their soul to an idea they never
questioned that they confuse desire for
destiny and seduction for sincerity And
when the illusion finally fades when
reality sets in they are left with more
than broken hearts They are left with
broken lives Chopenhau's brilliance lay
not in his bitterness but in his clarity
He stripped away sentiment and exposed
the machinery beneath the raw unfiltered
forces of nature that drive us all
whether we see them or not He saw men
not as oppressors but as victims of
their own longing Men he argued are
noble by nature rational driven builders
of thought and civilization They erect
empires paint masterpieces solve the
riddles of science and wrestle with the
great philosophical questions But all of
it every achievement every ounce of
progress is vulnerable to collapse The
moment a man surrenders to unchecked
desire Because once a man falls under
the spell he begins to serve not his
purpose but hers He becomes willing to
sacrifice his mission for the approval
of one person He begins to compromise
his values for comfort He reshapes his
identity to be more palatable more
agreeable more desirable
In doing so he forgets who he is And
Schopenhau saw this as the most tragic
betrayal not of society not of principle
but of the self What is the worth of a
man who forgets himself what happens to
his spirit when he no longer lives for
truth but for validation schopenhauer
observed that many men are not broken by
hardship or war or poverty but by love
or rather by the illusion of it by the
soft poison of dependency And it is here
he argued that women consciously or not
hold power because they do not need to
dominate with force They dominate
through need through presence through
charm through silence They rarely demand
obedience Men offer it and they rarely
ask for sacrifice Men volunteer it and
so begins the slow erosion First it is
the time he once gave to his ambitions
Then it is the fire that once burned for
his craft Then it is the solitude that
once gave birth to ideas One by one
these pillars fall until the man who
once stood tall is now kneeling Not in
reverence but in resignation His purpose
becomes maintenance His joy becomes
avoidance His dreams shrink to
accommodate someone else's comfort And
yet the world celebrates this They call
it maturity responsibility even love But
Shopenhau challenged us to question
"What if it's not growth but surrender
what if the man who gives up his fire
isn't evolving but fading?" He believed
the truly awakened man sees beyond these
illusions He doesn't hate women He
understands their nature He doesn't
reject love but sees it as what it is a
force to be respected not woripped And
most importantly he protects his soul
from being consumed by the things that
once promised happiness but only brought
distraction This is not a call to
isolation but to awareness To step back
and ask "Am I the man I was meant to be
or have I become someone else for the
sake of peace attention or fleeting
pleasure?" Schopenhau's voice is not one
of anger It is one of warning A quiet
but unrelenting truth echoing through
the generations calling men back to
themselves before it's too late In
Schopenhau's world the highest form of
man is not the lover the husband or even
the warrior It is the philosopher The
one who sees the game for what it is and
chooses not to play The one who turns
away from the noise from the seduction
from the applause of others and instead
faces the silence within He believed
that only through detachment could a man
be free Only by renouncing the illusion
of fulfillment through others could he
begin to understand his true nature He
pointed to the great men of solitude
Buddha the Stoics the saints and sages
who walked alone not because they were
unloved but because they were unwilling
to trade their peace for momentary
affection They saw through the mirage of
romantic salvation They chose wisdom
over warmth clarity over comfort And it
was in that solitude Schopenhau argued
that man finds power Not the kind that
dominates others but the kind that
reclaims the self This path is not for
everyone Most will reject it Society
will call it cold detached even bitter
But Schopenhauer didn't write for the
masses He wrote for the few The men who
are ready to see The men who have
suffered enough to ask why The ones who
have chased love lost themselves and now
seek something real Not validation not
comfort but truth And the truth is this
A man who does not understand his
desires is ruled by them A man who does
not understand women is vulnerable to
them And a man who builds his identity
on the promises of romance will watch
that identity collapse when those
promises are broken Schopenhauer
challenges every man to ask "Are you
awake or are you dreaming someone else's
dream?" This is not a rejection of love
It's a call to love differently to love
your mind to love your purpose to love
the stillness that speaks when the world
goes quiet Because the man who can sit
alone with his thoughts and feel no
hunger no longing no ache for something
more that is the man who cannot be
controlled that is the man who is truly
free So if you're watching this and
something inside you stirs if something
feels painfully uncomfortably true don't
run from it Sit with it Let it burn away
the illusions you've been clinging to
Let it strip you of the lies you were
told about who you need to be and what
will make you whole You were never meant
to live in chains disguised as comfort
You were never meant to die in a life
built on compromise You were meant to
see clearly to walk alone if you must To
rise not because someone told you to but
because you remembered who you are Let
Schopenhau's brutal truth be the mirror
Not so you can hate the world but so you
can stop being deceived by it And once
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