Arthur Schopenhauer is a German philosopher, one of the main representatives of philosophical irrationalism, because of sharp judgments received the nickname "philosopher of pessimism". His philosophy and unusual views on human nature, metaphysical analysis of the will, and aphoristic writing style had a huge impact on Z.. Freud, F. Nietzsche, A. Einstein, K. Jung, L. by L. X. Borges and many others. What is the “will to live” and the “representation” of the world? why life is a tragedy, but in its details resembles a comedy What gives a person knowledge ; how he gets acquainted with the surrounding reality through his body and how he solves his genius; What is love and why a woman is the main culprit of evil ... Difficult to understand the texts of Schopenhauer become a fascinating reading thanks to the comments and explanations of a specialist .