We should be grateful to Schopenhauer for managing to express the truth about life so beautifully. -- Alain De Botton author of The Consolations of PhilosophyThe Essential Schopenhauer delivers the first comprehensive English anthology of the seminal philosopher's writings edited by Wolfgang Schirmacher president of the International Schopenhauer Association. This indispensable collection affords readers a uniquely accessible gateway into the monolithic thinker's prodigious body of work. Just as