by Arthur Schopenhauer
Translated from the German by E.F.J. Payne
© Oxford University Press 1974

Vitam impendere vero
juvenal, Sat. IV. 91
["Dedicate one's life to truth"]

Table of Contents:

• VOLUME ONE

  • Translator's Introduction

  • Preface

  • Sketch of a History of the Doctrine of the Ideal and the Real

  • Fragments for the History of Philosophy

  • On Philosophy at the Universities

  • Transcendent Speculation on the Apparent Deliberateness in the Fate of the Individual

  • Essay on Spirit Seeing and everything connected therewith

  • Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life

    • Introduction

    • 1. Fundamental Division

    • 2. What a Man Is

    • 3. What a Man Has

    • 4. What a Man Represents

    • 5. Counsels and Maxims

    • 6. On the Different Periods of Life

Table of Contents:

• VOLUME TWO

  • Stray yet systematically arranged thoughts on a variety of subjects

    • 1. On Philosophy and its Method

    • 2. On Logic and Dialectic

    • 3. Ideas concerning the Intellect generally and in all Respects

    • 4. Some Observations on the Antithesis of the Thing-in-Itself and the Phenomenon

    • 5. A few Words on Pantheism

    • 6. On Philosophy and Natural Science

    • 7. On the Theory of Colours

    • 8. On Ethics

    • 9. On Jurisprudence and Politics

    • 10. On the Doctrine of the Indestructibility of our True Nature by Death

    • 11. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Vanity of Existence

    • 12. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Suffering of the World

    • 13. On Suicide

    • 14. Additional Remarks on the Doctrine of the Affirmation and Denial of the Will-to-Live

    • 15. On Religion

    • 16. Some Remarks on Sanskrit Literature

    • 17. Some Archaeological Observations

    • 18. Some Mythological Observations

    • 19. On the Metaphysics of the Beautiful and Aesthetics

    • 20. On Judgement, Criticism, Approbation, and Fame

    • 21. On Learning and the Learned

    • 22. On Thinking for Oneself

    • 23. On Authorship and Style

    • 24. On Reading and Books

    • 25. On Language and Words

    • 26. Psychological Remarks

    • 27. On Women

    • 28. On Education

    • 29. On Physiognomy

    • 30. On Din and Noise

    • 31. Similes, Parables, and Fables

  • Some Verses

  • Selected Bibliography

  • Index