"The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Religion, a Dialogue, Etc" by Arthur Schopenhauer (translated by T. Bailey Saunders). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Schopenhauer, in his Dialogue on Religion, borrowing from, in admixture, David Hume's Dialogue Concerning Natural Religion (1779) and Cicero's dialogue The Nature of the Gods (45BC), employs two characters: Philalethes, the voice of philosophy, and Demopheles, the voice of the people, and thereby compares the philosophical view with the "metaphysics of the masses"; a few representative quotes: "They found it easier to burn Vanini that to confute him."-- Arthur Schopenhauer (c.1830), Dialogue on Religion (pg. 5)"You've no notion of how stupid most people are."-- Arthur Schopenhauer (c.1830), Dialogue on Religion (pg. 21); voice of Demopheles