Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of t…

Arthur Schopenhauer
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Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect. ✨ Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer, p.54, Simon and Schuster
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