Sacred apes of Benares
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sacred apes of Benares was one of Schopenhauer's designations for women. Used in Parerga and Paralipomena (in the chapter "On Women").
- This is just the view which the ancients took of woman, and the view which people in the East take now; and their judgment as to her proper position is much more correct than ours, with our old French notions of gallantry and our preposterous system of reverence--that highest product of Teutonico-Christian stupidity. These notions have served only to make women more arrogant and overbearing; so that one is occasionally reminded of the holy apes in Benares, who in the consciousness of their sanctity and inviolable position, think they can do exactly as they please. [source, tr. Thomas Bailey Saunders.]
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