The World as Will and Idea

 is a readable shard in Cyberpunk 2077. It contains an extract from the real-world work by the same name by the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer.

Location
On a table next to Fingers' bed in his clinic. This location is visited during The Space In Between quest.

This shard can also be found inside Misty's Esoterica and Chakra Harmonization to the left from the doorway, on a table near the counter. This location is visited during The Ripperdoc.

Transcript
[...]But, besides all this, death is the great opportunity no longer to be I;–to him who uses it. During life the will of man is without freedom: his action takes place with necessity upon the basis of his unalterable character in the chain of motives. But every one remembers much that he has done, and on account of which he is by no means satisfied with himself. If now he were to go on living, he would go on acting in the same way, on account of the unalterable nature of his character. Accordingly he must cease to be what he is in order to be able to arise out of the germ of his nature as a new and different being. Therefore death looses these bonds; the will again becomes free; for freedom lies in the Esse, not in the Operari[...]

Arthur Schopenhauer