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“The wig is the appropriate symbol of the man of learning, pure and simple. It adorns the head with a copious quantity of false hair, in lack of one's own: just as erudition means endowing it with a great mass of alien thought. This, to be sure, does not clothe the head so well and naturally, nor is it so generally useful, nor so suited for all purposes, nor so firmly rooted; nor when alien thought is used up, can it be immediately replaced by more from the same source, as is the case with that which springs from soil of one's own.” — Arthur Schopenhauer
The wig is the appropriate symbol of the man of learning, pure and simple.
It adorns the head with a copious quantity of false hair, in lack of one's own: just
as erudition means endowing it with a great mass of alien thought. This, to be
sure, does not clothe the head so well and naturally, nor is it so generally useful,
nor so suited for all purposes, nor so firmly rooted; nor when alien thought is
used up, can it be immediately replaced by more from the same source, as is the
case with that which springs from soil of one's own.