The Schopenhauer Cure(121)



To marry at a late age…: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 504 / § 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 / “,” § 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 / “,” § 33

“One cold winter’s day…”: Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 651 / § 396.

“Yet whoever has a great deal of internal warmth…”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 652 / § 396.

“highest class of mankind”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 498 / “,” § 20

“My intellect belonged not to me…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 / “,” § 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 / § 135

“It is better not to speak…”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 512 / “,” § 32

“miserable wretches, of limited intelligence…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 501 / “,” § 22.

“Almost every contact with men…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 508 / “,” § 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 / “,” § 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 / § 28.

“To disregard is to win regard”: Ibid., p. 72. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / § 28

“If we really think highly…”: Ibid., p. 72. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol.1, p. 451 / § 28

“Better to let men be what they are…”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 508 / “,” § 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 / § 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 / § 56.

“Work, worry, toil and trouble…”: Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 293 / § 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 / § 144.

“We are like lambs playing in the field…”: Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 292 / § 150

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