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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

— Arthur Schopenhauer Parerga and Paralipomena (1851)

... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.

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E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 140

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