The Schopenhauer Cure

Notes

«Every breath we draw wards...”: Arthur

Schopenhauer,The World as Will and Representation, trans.

E. F. J. Payne, 2 vols. (New York: Dover Publications,

1969), vol. 1., p. 311 / В§ 57

«Ecstasy in the act of copulation...”: Arthur

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes, ed.

Arthur HГјbscher, trans. E. F. J. Payne (Oxford: Berg

Publishers, 1988‫90), vol. 3. p. 262 / § 111

«Life is a miserable thing...”: Eduard Grisebach,

ed.,Schopenhauer`s Gespräche und Selbstgespräche

(Berlin: E. Hofmann, 1898), p. 3

«Talent is like a marksman...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 2, p. 391 / chap. 31, «On Genius.»

«No one helped me,...”: RГјdiger Safranski,Schopenhauer

and the Wild Years of Philosophy, trans. Ewald Osers

(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991), p. 11.

«A happy life is impossible...”: Arthur

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, trans. E. F. J.

Payne, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), vol. 2, p.

322 / В§ 172a.

«The solid foundations of our view...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p. 478

/ chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»

«Splendor, rank, and title exercise...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 14.

«I no more pretended ardent love...”: Ibid., p. 13

«If we look at life in its small details...”: T. Bailey

Saunders, trans.,Complete Essays of Schopenhauer: Seven

Books in One Volume (New York: Wiley, 1942), book 5, p.

24. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,

vol. 2, p. 290 / В§ 147a.

«in the near and penetrating eye of death...”: Thomas

Mann,Buddenbrooks, trans. H. T. Lowe–Porter (New York:

Vintage Books, 1952), p. 509

«A master–mind could lay hold...”: Ibid., p. 510

«Have I hoped to live on...”: Ibid., p. 513

«so perfectly consistently clear...”: Thomas Mann,Essays

of Three Decades, trans. H. T. Lowe–Porter (New York:

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), p. 373

«emotional, breath–taking, playing between violent

contrasts...”: Ibid., p. 373.

«letting that dynamic, dismal genius work...”: Ronald

Hayman,Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Penguin,

1982), p. 72

«Religion has everything on its side...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 166 / chap. 17, «On

Man`s Need for Metaphysics.»

«Could we foresee it...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book

5, p. 3. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,

vol. 2, p. 298 / В§ 155a.

«In endless space countless luminous spheres...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 3 / chap. 1, «On the

Fundamental View of Idealism.»

«Just because the terrible activity...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 394 /

chap. 31, «On Genius.»

«by far the happiest part...”: Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 26

«Remember how your father permits...”: Ibid., p. 29

«feeling of two friends meeting...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 299 / В§ 156

«I found myself in a country unknown to me...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 280

«The greatest wisdom is to make...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 /

В§ 143.

«The kings left their crowns and scepters behind...”:

Safranski,Shopenhauer, p. 44.

«put aside all these authors for a while...”: Ibid., p. 37

«In my seventeenth year...”: Ibid., p. 41

«This world is supposed to have been made...”: Ibid., 58

«When, at the end of their lives...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 285 / В§ 145

«A person of high, rare mental gifts...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 388 / chap. 31, «On

Genius.»

«Noble, excellent spirit to whom I owe everything...”:

Safranski,Shopenhauer, p. 278.

«Dancing and riding do not make...” and other quotations

from Heinrich`s letters: Ibid., pp. 52‫53

«I know too well how little you had...”: Ibid., p. 81

«I continued to hold my position...”: Ibid., p. 55

«Your character...”: Arthur Schopenhauer. Johanna

Schopenhauer to Arthur Schopenhauer (April 28, 1807).

InDer Briefwechsel Arthur Schopenhauer Hrsg. v. Carl

Gebbart Drei Bände. Erste Band (1799) München: R. Piper

& Co. p.129ff. Trans. by Felix Reuter and Irvin Yalom.

«I will always choose the most exciting option...”: Der

Briefwechsel Arthur Schopenhauers. Herausgegeben von

Carl Gebhardt. Erster Band (1799‫1849). Munich: R.

Piper, 1929. Aus: Arthur Schopenhauer: Sämtliche Werke.

Herausgegeben von Dr. Paul Deussen. Vierzehnter Band.

Erstes und zweites Tausend. Munich: R. Piper, 1929. pp.

129ff. Nr.71. Correspondence, Gebhardt and HГјbscher,

eds. Letter from Johanna Schopenhauer, April 28, 1807,

trans. by Felix Reuter and Irvin Yalom.

«The serious and calm tone...”: Ibid.,

That you have so quickly come to a decision...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 84

«It is noteworthy and remarkable to see...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 1, p. 85 / В§ 16.

«Only the male intellect...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 619 / В§ 369

«Your eternal quibbles, your laments...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, pp. 92, 94.

«I know women. They regard marriage only...”: Arthur

Schopenhauer: Gespräche. Hrsg. v. Arthur Hübscher,

Stuttgart–Bad Cannstatt 1971, p.152. Trans. by Felix Reuter

and Irvin Yalom.

«Mark now on what footing...”: Safranski, p. 94

«Fourfold root? No doubt this...”: Ibid., p. 169

«The door which you slammed so noisily...”: Paul Deusen,

ed.,Journal of the Schopenhauer Society, 1912‫1944, trans.

Felix Reuter, Frankfurt: n.p. 1973, p. 128.

«Most men allow themselves to be seduced...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 /

“ ,” В§ 25. Trans. modified by Felix Reuter

and Irvin Yalom.

«Great sufferings render lesser ones...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 1, p. 316 / В§ 57. Trans.

modified by Walter Sokel and Irvin Yalom.

«Nothing can alarm or move him any more...”: Ibid., vol.

1, p. 390/ В§ 68.

«One must have chaos...”: Friedrich Nietzsche,Thus Spoke

Zarathustra, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguin,

1961), p. 46

«The flower replied:...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 649 / chap. 314 В§ 388.»

«The cheerfulness and buoyancy of our youth...”: Ibid.,

vol. 1, p. 483 / chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»

«half mad through excesses...”: Arthur HГјbscher,Arthur

Schopenhauer: Ein Lebensbild. Dritte Auflage,

durchgesehen von Angelika HГјbscher, mit einer Abbildung

und zwei Handschriftproben. (Mannheim: F. A. Brockhaus,

1988), S. 12

«little though I care for stiff etiquette...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 40

«I only wish you had learned...”: Ibid., p. 40

«Next to the picture were...”: Ibid., p. 42

«I find that a panorama from a high mountain...”: Ibid., p.

51.

«Philosophy is a high mountain road...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 1, p. 14 / В§ 20

«We entered a room of carousing servants...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 51.

«The strident singing of the multitude...” and subsequent

quotations in this paragraph: Ibid., p. 43

«I am sorry that your stay...”: Ibid., p. 45

«Every time I went out among men...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 /

“ ,” В§ 32

«Be sure your objective judgments...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 167

«He is a happy man...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book

2, p. 63. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 445 / chap. 5, «Counsels and

Maxims.»

«Sex does not hesitate to intrude...”: Schopenhauer,World

as Will, vol. 2, p. 533 / chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of

Sexual Love.»

«Obit anus, abit onus...”: Bryan Magee,The Philosophy of

Schopenhauer (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983; revised

1997), p. 13, footnote.

«Industrious whore»: Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 66

«I was very fond of them...”: Ibid., p. 67

«But I didn`t want them, you see...”: Arthur Schopenhauer:

Gespräche. Herausgegeben von Arthur Hübscher. Neue,

stark erweiterte Ausg. Stuttgart–Bad Cannstatt, 1971, p. 58.

Trans. by Felix Reuter.

«May you not totally lose the ability...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 245

«For a woman, limitation to one man...”: Ibid., p. 271

«Man at one time has too much...”: Ibid., p. 271

«All great poets were unhappily married...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 505 /

“ ,” В§ 25

To marry at a late age...: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 / В§ 24.

«Next to the love of life...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,

vol. 2, p. 513 / chap. 42, «Life of the Species.»

«If we consider all this...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 534 / chap. 44,

«The Metaphysics of Sexual Love.»

«The true end of the whole love story...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p.

535 / chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual Love.»

«Therefore what here guides man...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 539 /

chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual Love.»

«The man is taken possession of by the spirit...”: Ibid., vol.

2, pp. 554, 555 / chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual

Love.»

«For he is under the influence...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 556 /

chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual Love.»

«What is not endowed with reason...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 557 /

chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual Love.»

«If I maintain silence about my secret...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«If we do not want to be a plaything...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 499 /

“ ,” В§ 20

«If you have an earnest desire...”: Epictetus:Discourses

and Enchiridion , trans. Thomas Wentworth Higginson

(New York: Walter J. Black, 1944), p. 338.

«By the time I was thirty...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 513 / “ ,” В§ 33

«One cold winter`s day...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 651 / В§ 396.

«Yet whoever has a great deal of internal warmth...”: Ibid.,

vol. 2, p. 652 / В§ 396.

«highest class of mankind»: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 498 / “ ,” В§ 20

«My intellect belonged not to me...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /

“ ,” В§ 3.

«Young Schopenhauer seems to have changed...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 120.

«Your friend, our great Goethe...”: Ibid., p. 177.

«We discussed a good many things...”: Ibid., p. 190

«But the genius lights on his age...”: Schopenhauer,World

as Will, vol. 2, p. 390 / chap. 31, «On Genius.»

«If in daily intercourse we are asked...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 268 /

В§ 135

«It is better not to speak...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 / “ ,” В§ 32

«miserable wretches, of limited intelligence...”: Ibid., vol.

4, p. 501 / “ ,” В§ 22.

«Almost every contact with men...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 508 /

“ ,” В§ 29.

«Do not tell a friend what your enemy...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«Regard all personal affairs as secrets...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p.

465 / chap. 5 «Counsels and Maxims.»

«Giving way neither to love nor to hate...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p.

466/ chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«Distrust is the mother of safety...”

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 495 /

“ ,” В§ 17

«To forget at any time the bad traits...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466/

chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«The only way to attain superiority...”: Saunders,Complete

Essays, book 2, p. 72. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 451 / В§ 28.

«To disregard is to win regard»: Ibid., p. 72. See also

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / В§

28

«If we really think highly...”: Ibid., p. 72. See also

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / В§

28

«Better to let men be what they are...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 508 /

“ ,” В§ 29, footnote.

«We must never show anger and hatred...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 466 /

chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«By being polite and friendly...”: Ibid., p. 463

«There are few ways by which...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 459 / chap. 5, «Counsels and

Maxims.»

«We should set a limit to our wishes...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p.

438 / chap. 5, «Counsels and Maxims.»

«No rose without a thorn...”: Saunders,Complete Essays,

book 5, p. 97. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 648 / В§ 385

Bodies are material objects...: See discussion in

Magee,Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 440‫53

«Every place we look in life...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 1, p. 309 / В§ 56.

«Work, worry, toil and trouble...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 293 / В§ 152

«In the first place a man never is happy...”:

Saunders,Complete Essays, book 5, p. 21. See also

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 /

В§ 144.

«We are like lambs playing in the field...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 292 /

В§ 150

«I have not written for the crowd...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 207 /

«Pandectae II,” В§ 84

«A man finds himself...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book

5, p. 19. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 283 / В§ 143.

«When, on a sea voyage...”: Epictetus,Discourses and

Enchiridion, p. 334.

«Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered

material...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,

vol. 1, p. 482 / chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»

«Even when there is no particular provocation...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 507 /

“ ,” В§ 28

Schopenhauer`s daily schedule: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 24

Schopenhauer`s table talk: Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 284.

The gold piece for the poor: Arthur HГјbscher,

ed.,Schopenhauer`s Anekdotenbuchlein (Frankfurt, 1981),

p. 58. Trans. Felix Reuter and Irvin Yalom.

Many anecdotes of his sharp wit...: Ibid.

«Well built...invariably well dressed...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 284.

«The risk of living without work...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 503 /

“ ,” В§ 24

«Two months in your room...”: Safranski,Schopenhauer, p.

288

«The monuments, the ideas left behind...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 487 /

“ ,” В§ 7

«To the learned men and philosophers of Europe...”: Ibid.,

vol. 4, p. 121 / «Cholera–Buch,” В§ 40.

«suspiciousness, sensitiveness, vehemence, and pride...”:

Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / “ ,” В§ 28

«Inherited from my father...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 /

“ ,” В§ 28

Schopenhauer`s precautions and rituals:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 287.

A physician and medical historian suggested...: Iwan

Bloch, «Schopenhauers Krankheit im Jahre 1823»

inMedizinische Klinik, nos. 25‫26 (1906).

«I shall not accept any letters...”: Safranski,Schopenhauer,

p. 240

«commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 96 / В§

12

«We cannot pass over in silence...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 315

«But let him alone...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book 5,

p. 97. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,

vol. 2, p. 647, para. 387

«Seen from the standpoint of youth...”: Ibid., vol. 1, pp.

483‫84 / chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»

«It means to escape from willing entirely»: See discussion

in Magee,Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 220‫25.

«When a man like me is born...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 510 /

“ ,” В§ 30

«Even in my youth I noticed...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /

“ ,” В§ 3

«My life is heroic...”: Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 485‫86 /

“ ,” В§ 4

«I gradually acquired an eye...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 492 /

“ ,” В§ 12.

«I am not in my native place...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 495 /

“ ,” В§ 17.

«the smaller the personal life...”:

Grisenbach,Schopenhauer`s Gespräche, p. 103.

«Throughout my life I have felt terribly lonely...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 501 /

“ ,” В§ 22

«The best aid for the mind...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 499

/ В§ 20

«Whoever seeks peace and quiet...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 505

/ В§ 26.

«It is impossible for anyone...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ —Maxims and Favourite Passages.»

«When, at times, I felt unhappy...”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 488 /

“ ,” В§ 8.

«that nothing but the mere form...”: Schopenhauer,World

as Will, vol. 1, p. 315 / В§ 57.

«Where are there any real monogamists?...”:

Saunders,Complete Essays, book 5, p. 86. See also

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 624 /

В§ 370.

«Everyone who is in love...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,

vol. 2, p. 540 / chap. 44, «The Metaphysics of Sexual

Love.»

«We should treat with indulgence...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 305 /

chap. 11, В§ 156a.

«Some cannot loosen their own chains...”: Nietzsche,Thus

Spake Zarathustra, p. 83. F. Nietzche,Thus Spake

Zarathustra (New York: Penguin Books, 1961), p.83.

Translation modified by Walter Sokel and Irvin Yalom.

«I will wipe my pen and say...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 25.

«It is not fame...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, pp. 397, 399 / chap. 4, «What a Man

Represents.»

«extracting an obstinate painful thorn...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p.

358 / chap. 4, «What a Man Represents.»

«mouldy film on the surface of the earth...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 3 / chap. 1, «On the

Fundamental View of Idealism.»

«A useless disturbing episode...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 299 / В§ 156

«Not to pleasure but to painlessness...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ ,”—Maxims and Favourite Passages.»

«everyone must act in life`s great puppet play...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 420 /

В§ 206

«The really proper address...”: Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 304, 305 /

В§ 156, 156a.

«We should treat with indulgence...Schopenhauer,Parerga

and Paralipomena, vol.2, p. 305 / chap. 11, В§ 156a.

«all the literary gossips...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 26

«If a cat is stroked it purrs...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 353 / chap. 4, «What a Man

Represents.»

«the morning sun of my fame...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 516 /

“ ,” В§ 36

«She works all day at my place...”:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.

«At the end of his life, no man...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 1, p. 324 / В§ 59.

«A carpenter does not come up to me...”: Pierre

Hadot,Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises

from Socrates to Foucault, ed. Arnold Davidson, trans.

Michael Chase (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995).

«In the first place a man...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 / В§ 144

«I can bear the thought...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p. 393, «Senilia,” В§ 102.

«The life of our bodies...”: Schopenhauer,World as Will,

vol. 1, p. 311 / В§ 57.

«What a difference there is...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 288 / В§ 147.

Schopenhauer`s final thoughts on death...:

Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 348.

«It is absurd to consider nonexistence...”:

Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 467 / chap. 41, «On

Death and Its Relation to the Indestructibility of Our Inner

Nature.»

«We should welcome it...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga and

Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 322 / В§ 172a.

«If we knocked on the graves...”: Schopenhauer,World as

Will, vol. 2, p. 465 / chap. 41, «On Death and Its Relation

to the Indestructibility of Our Inner Nature.»

The dialogue between two Hellenic philosophers:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 279 /

В§ 141

«When you say I, I, I...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 281 / В§ 141

«I have always hoped to die easily...”:

Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /

“ ,” В§ 38

«I now stand weary at the end of the road...”:

Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 658 /

«Finale.»

«I am deeply glad to see...”: Magee,Philosophy of

Schopenhauer, p. 25.

«This man who lived among us a lifetime...”: Karl

Pisa,Schopenhauer (Berlin: Paul Neff Verlag, 1977), p. 386

«Mankind has learned...”: Schopenhauer,Manuscript

Remains, vol. 4, p.328, «Spicegia,” В§ 122.