ed., Journal of the Schopenhauer Society, 1912-1944, trans.
Felix Reuter, Frankfurt: n.p. 1973, p. 128.
"Most men allow themselves to be seduced...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 /
"
," SS 25. Trans. modified by Felix Reuter
and Irvin Yalom.
"Great sufferings render lesser ones...":
Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 1, p. 316 / SS 57. Trans.
modified by Walter Sokel and Irvin Yalom.
"Nothing can alarm or move him any more...": Ibid., vol.
1, p. 390/ SS 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 SS 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 Hubscher, Arthur
Schopenhauer: Ein Lebensbild. Dritte Auflage,
durchgesehen von Angelika Hubscher, 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 / SS 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 /
"
," SS 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:
Gesprache. Herausgegeben von Arthur Hubscher. 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 /
"
," SS 25
To marry at a late age...: Schopenhauer, Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 /
SS 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 /
"
," SS 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 / "
," SS 33
"One cold winter's day...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 651 / SS 396.
"Yet whoever has a great deal of internal warmth...": Ibid.,
vol. 2, p. 652 / SS 396.
"highest class of mankind": Schopenhauer, Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p. 498 / "
," SS 20
"My intellect belonged not to me...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /
"
," SS 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 /
SS 135
"It is better not to speak...": Schopenhauer, Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 / "
," SS 32
"miserable wretches, of limited intelligence...": Ibid., vol.
4, p. 501 / "
," SS 22.
"Almost every contact with men...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 508 /
"
," SS 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 /
"
," SS 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 / SS 28.
"To disregard is to win regard": Ibid., p. 72. See also
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / SS
28
"If we really think highly...": Ibid., p. 72. See also
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / SS
28
"Better to let men be what they are...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 508 /
"
," SS 29, footnote.
"We must never show anger and hatred...":
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Pa
ralipomena, 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 / SS 385
Bodies are material objects...: See discussion in
Magee, Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 440-53
"Every place we look in life...": Schopenhauer, World as
Will, vol. 1, p. 309 / SS 56.
"Work, worry, toil and trouble...": Schopenhauer, Parerga
and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 293 / SS 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 /
SS 144.
"We are like lambs playing in the field...":
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 292 /
SS 150
"I have not written for the crowd...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 207 /
"Pandectae II," SS 84
"A man finds himself...": Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 19. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and
Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 283 / SS 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 /
"
," SS 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 Hubscher,
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 /
"
," SS 24
"Two months in your room...": Safranski, Schopenhauer, p.
288
"The monuments, the ideas left behind...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 487 /
"
," SS 7
"To the learned men and philosophers of Europe...": Ibid.,
vol. 4, p. 121 / "Cholera-Buch," SS 40.
"suspiciousness, sensitiveness, vehemence, and pride...":
Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / "
," SS 28
"Inherited from my father...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 /
"
," SS 28
Schopenhauer's precautions and rituals:
Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 287.
A physician and medical historian suggested...: Iwan
Bloch, "Schopenhauers Krankheit im Jahre 1823"
in Medizinische Klinik, nos. 25-26 (1906).
"I shall not accept any letters...": Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 240
"commonplace, inane, loathsome, repulsive...":
Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 1, p. 96 / SS
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.
483-84 / chap. 6, "On the Different Periods of Life."
"It means to escape from willing entirely": See discussion
in Magee, Philosophy of Schopenhauer, pp. 220-25.
"When a man like me is born...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 510 /
"
," SS 30
"Even in my youth I noticed...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 /
"
," SS 3
"My life is heroic...": Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 485-86 /
"
," SS 4
"I gradually acquired an eye...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 492 /
"
," SS 12.
"I am not in my native place...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 495 /
"
," SS 17.
"the smaller the personal life...":
Grisenbach, Schopenhauer's Gesprache, p. 103.
"Throughout my life I have felt terribly lonely...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 501 /
"
," SS 22
"The best aid for the mind...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 499
/
SS 20
"Whoever seeks peace and quiet...": Ibid., vol. 4, p. 505
/
SS 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 /
"
," SS 8.
"that nothing but the mere form...": Schopenhauer, World
as Will, vol. 1, p. 315 / SS 57.
"Where are there any real monogamists?...":
Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 86. See also
SS 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, SS 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 / SS 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 /
SS 206
"The really proper address...": Ibid., vol. 2, pp. 304, 305 /
SS 156, 156a.
"We should treat with indulgence...Schopenhauer, Parerga
and Paralipomena, vol.2, p. 305 / chap. 11, SS 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
Represe
nts."
"the morning sun of my fame...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 516 /
"
," SS 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 / SS 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 / SS 144
"I can bear the thought...": Schopenhauer, Manuscript
Remains, vol. 4, p. 393, "Senilia," SS 102.
"The life of our bodies...": Schopenhauer, World as Will,
vol. 1, p. 311 / SS 57.
"What a difference there is...": Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 288 / SS 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 / SS 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 /
SS 141
"When you say I, I, I...": Ibid., vol. 2, p. 281 / SS 141
"I have always hoped to die easily...":
Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 517 /
"
," SS 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," SS 122.
Acknowledgments
This book has had a long gestation and I am indebted to
many who helped along the way. To editors who assisted
me in this odd amalgam of fiction, psychobiography and
psychotherapy pedagogy: Marjorie Braman (a tower of