Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung 1

How this book is to be read in order to possibly be understood, I have set out to indicate here. What is to be conveyed through it is a single thought. Nevertheless, despite all efforts, I could find no shorter way to communicate it than this entire book. I consider that thought to be what has long been sought under the name of philosophy, and its discovery is regarded by the historically educated as impossible, much like that of the philosopher's stone. Arthur Schopenhauer's main work presented as a two-volume complete edition based on the edition by Arthur Hübscher.