Arthur Schopenhauer: The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as — Arthur Schopenhauer

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

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