{"product_id":"essays-ii-counsels-and-maxims-william-mann-9798276728315","title":"Essays II. Counsels and Maxims","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCounsels and Maxims\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eArthur Schopenhauer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second volume of his late masterpiece \u003ci\u003eParerga and Paralipomena\u003c\/i\u003e-is the darkest, wittiest, and most brutally useful self-help book ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Most men are as unhappy as they are because they have never learned how to be unhappy in the right way.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForget sugar-coated self-help. Here is the blackest, funniest, most ruthlessly practical handbook on surviving human existence ever written.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these essays (the second half of his late-life masterpiece \u003ci\u003eParerga and Paralipomena\u003c\/i\u003e), Schopenhauer strips away every illusion and hands you the operating manual for a suffering world: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy the majority of mankind is intellectually and morally unbearable (and how to avoid them)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy fame is a mask eaten by moths and love a biological trap\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy solitude is the only refuge of the higher mind\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy money is only useful up to the point where it stops buying freedom\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to arrange your days, your books, and even your furniture so the blind Will does the least damage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is no consolation here, only clarity. Schopenhauer's counsel is savage, precise, and strangely liberating: accept the worst, expect nothing, want little, and you will suffer less than the fools who chase happiness like dogs chasing their own tails.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNietzsche called it \"the most personal and useful book in world literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Mann,Arthur Schopenhauer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798276728315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/04\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.25d","brand":"William Mann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175863398655,"sku":"9798276728315","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d525abb9-ed3b-43a4-96ba-94f30847c0d1.jpg?v=1771336155","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/essays-ii-counsels-and-maxims-william-mann-9798276728315","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}