I hate his ascetic buddhist fetishization. But "The Wisdom of Life" is one of the best actionable and practical texts of philosophy. A much clearer evolution on Aristotle's ethics.

Highly recommend it if you are having trouble being consistent, stable, finding yourself and your place in today's society, or merely being happy and enjoying your existence. As intelligent people like (you) lean towards melancholy.

Yeah, totally, the pamphlet which, as he specifically states in the introduction, he wrote, as he was finally getting some attention late in his life, with the sole purpose of easing the entry to his philosophy for the lay man, and which to that end intentionally ignores the main principle of that philosophy, gives you little to no idea of said philosophy, and thus should not be considered seriously by anyone but the lay man. That's the good Schopenhauer stuff. The fucking Wisdom of Life.

Seriously though, it's a very reasonable place to make the man's acquaintance. You shouldn't stop there, though.

>>24544077 (OP)
He inherited tons of money from his father. Give me enough money to live a comfortable life without getting a job and I too will write these "timeless" wisdom books.
>Aristotle
Rich subhuman had a library when books were rare luxury items.

I have so much resentment for rich subhumans.

I found the autistic part where he went on and on about knights tad boring but other than that it's a really enjoyable book.

>>24544154
>books were rare luxury items in the 19th century
Anon I...

>>24545508
do YOU have a library of books?

>>24544077 (OP)
>I hate his ascetic buddhist fetishization.
Why? Doesn't it reflect his core philosophy quite well?

>>24547667
Yes, even though I haven't bought a physical book in 4 years. Do you live in some subsaharran shithole where a book costs a weeks wages?

>>24544077 (OP)
What is the point of following the philosophy of a dude who died like he did?

>>24544077 (OP)
yeah sure

>>24549216
Anon you have an unhealthy fixation on this. If you want to die in a very specific way then you are going to have to do it yourself. Looking up how philosophers died isn't going to help you.

>>24549352 You don't get it. How people die defines how they lived. Don't follow people who die a bad death. This is no fixation, it's pure logic.

>>24549357
>everyone dies
>now we defined life

Yes this is pure logic. It doesn't change anything I just said.