This collection of works by the eminent German thinker Arthur Schopenhauer includes excerpts from his major work, 'The World as Will and Representation,' which can be interpreted as the author's unique commentary on the concept of 'World Will'—a central concept in his philosophical system. The published texts introduce the reader to Schopenhauer's ethical views, his interpretation of the essence of sexual love, and his understanding of death and human mortality. The fear of nothingness and the ineradicable thirst for life, the metaphysics of suffering and the power of instincts, the diversity of manifestations of the real (will) in the familiar illusory world—such are the intellectual themes that comprise the content of this book.