Arthur Schopenhauer

Author, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher whose main work, The World as Will and Representation (1818), portrays reality as driven by a blind, striving will. His essays and aphorisms in Parerga and Paralipomena (1851) brought him readers late in life.

Books written by Arthur Schopenhauer

• The Wisdom of Life
• Essays and Aphorisms
• Counsels and Maxims
• Studies in Pessimism