Korp och räv i samspråk

Arthur Schopenhauer i Parerga und Paralipomena:

”A mother gave her children Æsop’s fables to read, in the hope of educating and improving their minds; but they very soon brought the book back, and the eldest, wise beyond his years, delivered himself as follows: This is no book for us; it is much too childish and stupid. You can’t make us believe that foxes and wolves and ravens are able to talk; we’ve got beyond stories of that kind!

In these young hopefuls you have the enlightened Rationalists of the future.”