Essays of Schopenhauer

Excerpt: 'When Schopenhauer was asked where he wished to be buried, he answered, 'Anywhere; they will find me;' and the stone that marks his grave at Frankfort bears merely the inscription 'Arthur Schopenhauer,' without even the date of his birth or death. Schopenhauer, the pessimist, had a sufficiently optimistic conviction that his message to the world would ultimately be listened to—a convictio...