The World as Will and Idea

The World as Will and Idea holds that all nature, including human, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, & the only lasting good thru ascetic renunciation. Unique in western philosophy for his affinity with Eastern thought, Schopenhauer influenced philosophers, writers & composers including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Wagner, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann & Beckett.