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About HappinessLearning from the Philosopher Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer's "On Happiness" Synopsis and Impressions - Schopenhauer's style of life theory strongly influenced by Buddhism.

Happiness is a mirage. It is a delusion."

The title of the book, "On Happiness," suggests that we will be taught how to make our lives happy, but Schopenhauer's character is in full force when he suddenly and bluntly dismisses happiness as nothing more than an illusion.

In this book, Schopenhauer shreds the "illusion of happiness that people believe in" and talks about how to live and what true happiness is.

Unlike his main book, "The World as Will and Representation," the stories are short, concrete, and very readable. It is an excellent introduction to Schopenhauer.
The World as Will and RepresentationLearning from the Philosopher Schopenhauer

Read Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation

The World as Will and Representation is a rather large work. It would be extremely difficult for the people of the time, as well as for us today, to fully understand it.

What's more, surprisingly, the author himself, Schopenhauer, makes a tremendous statement in his preface.

He begins by saying. You have to read this book twice to understand it.

He wants us to read such a difficult and long book twice. And he declares from the very beginning that you need patience because you won't understand it the first time. Schopenhauer is indeed a very different man.

Other words of surprise keep coming. After all, this work is not a simple one!
SchopenhauerLearning from the Philosopher Schopenhauer

Schopenhauer and Dostoevsky, the great masters of pessimism (pessimism)

Curiously, Dostoevsky himself does not have much of a Schopenhauer shadow. His contemporaries Turgenev and Tolstoy took a strong interest in him, while Dostoevsky did not. This fact, conversely, is intriguing.

Schopenhauer is also famous as a philosopher who was influenced by Buddhism. He is a philosopher that I have been meaning to read someday but have been putting it off.

This is also a good opportunity and I would like to read Schopenhauer from now on.