«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 /
