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Books like Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer is about pessimism, will, wisdom. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The World as Will and Representation
    The World as Will and Representation

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    The World as Will and Representation

    Arthur Schopenhauer · Philosophy

    The World as Will and Representation is Arthur Schopenhauer's masterwork, published in 1818 and substantially expanded in 1844.

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  2. Beyond Good and Evil
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    Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy

    Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's assault on the philosophical tradition he had been trained in and had grown to distrust.

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  3. Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most ambitious and peculiar work — part philosophical treatise, part prose poem, styled deliberately after the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.

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  4. Man's Search for Meaning
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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

    Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

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  5. 1984
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    1984

    George Orwell · Philosophy

    Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.

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  6. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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    21 Lessons for the 21st Century

    Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy

    Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.

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