Essays of Schopenhauer

<p>These essays are a valuable criticism of life by a man who had a wide experience of life a man of the world who possessed an almost inspired faculty of observation. Schopenhauer of all men unmistakably observed life at first hand.</p><p><br></p><p>He was for his time and for his country an adept at literary form; but he used it only as a means. Complicated as his sentences occasionally are he says many sharp many brilliant many epigrammatic things but these fireworks are not merely a literary display they are used to illumine what he considers to be the truth. Rien n'est beau que le vrai; le vrai seul est aimable he quotes; he was a deliberate and diligent searcher after truth always striving to attain the heart of things to arrive at a knowledge of first principles.</p>