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Schopenhauer WARNED MEN! about Women but it fell on deaf ears

  • Writer: Marcus Nikos
    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

you see clearly you never unsee If this

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