[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

The majority of men... are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and... are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.