The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice. This is mainly due to the fact...that women are defective in the powers of reasoning and deliberation; but it is also traceable to the position which Nature has assigned to them as the weaker sex. They are dependent, not upon strength, but upon craft; and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their ineradicable tendency to say what is not true. For as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with tusks, bulls with horns, and cuttle fish with its clouds of inky fluid, so Nature has equipped woman, for her defense and protection, with the arts of dissimulation.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The fundamental fault of the female character is that it has no sense of justice. This is mainly due to the fact...that women are defective in the powers of reasoning and deliberation; but it is also traceable to the position which Nature has assigned to them as the weaker sex. They are dependent, not upon strength, but upon craft; and hence their instinctive capacity for cunning, and their ineradicable tendency to say what is not true. For as lions are provided with claws and teeth, and elephants and boars with tusks, bulls with horns, and cuttle fish with its clouds of inky fluid, so Nature has equipped woman, for her defense and protection, with the arts of dissimulation." in the context of "Arthur Schopenhauer, "On Women". T. B. Saunders, Studies in Pessimism (1913), pp. 108–10" to mean that wisdom is timeless.