The charge of despair | Arthur Schopenhauer

Immortality and suicide, the position of women and the instinct of man, human psychology and its suffering, its happiness in this world: these selected texts do not carry within them the strictness of pure philosophical theses written by Schopenhauer, but rather are a dissection of the world as Schopenhauer saw it through the eyes of that pure philosophy, are projections of his convictions onto our way of life, and guidance on the way we should live. As he tells us (theoretical wisdom that is not practiced, like the double rose, delights others with its colors and beautiful scent, but it withers and departs without seeds).