On two types of knowledge

It seems to me that as we have discussed so far, there appear to be two extereme forms of knowledge which we can come to know as part of the human experience. The first seems to be that with a better understanding of humanity and its behaviors, one could succumb to the pessimistic appraoch offered by Melville and Hawthorne and concede that human existence and human life is defined by suffering, death, pain, and a futile constant striving. The second type of knowledge a person can aquire taking Schopenhauer's appraoch is a type of mystical wisdom which once posessed, allows an indiviudal to transcend the suffering of their existence and know authentic truth. While it seems that sorrow may accompany the aquistion of knowledge, in the positive extreme knowledge is the only way to escape the horror to which Schopenauer considers to be the human life.