Hard to beat Arthur Schopenhauer--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Even better since much of

Hard to beat Arthur Schopenhauer--- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Schopenhauer Even better since much of his work is freely available from sources like Gutenberg and similar...they even have 'Studies in Pessimism' as an audio book!