The Schopenhauer Cure (54 page)

"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

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

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

Represents."

"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 /