The Schopenhauer Cure(122)
“I have not written for the crowd…”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 207 / “Pandectae II,” § 84
“A man finds himself…”: Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 19. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 283 / § 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 / “,” § 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 Hübscher, 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 / “,” § 24
“Two months in your room…”: Safranski, Schopenhauer, p. 288
“The monuments, the ideas left behind…”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 487 / “,” § 7
“To the learned men and philosophers of Europe…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 121 / “Cholera-Buch,” § 40.
“suspiciousness, sensitiveness, vehemence, and pride…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / “,” § 28
“Inherited from my father…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 506 / “,” § 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 / § 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 / “,” § 30
“Even in my youth I noticed…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 484 / “,” § 3
“My life is heroic…”: Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 485–86 / “,” § 4
“I gradually acquired an eye…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 492 / “,” § 12.
“I am not in my native place…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 495 / “,” § 17.
“the smaller the personal life…”: Grisenbach, Schopenhauer’s Gespr?che, p. 103.
“Throughout my life I have felt terribly lonely…”: Schopenhauer, Manuscript Remains, vol. 4, p. 501 / “,” § 22
“The best aid for the mind…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 499 / § 20
“Whoever seeks peace and quiet…”: Ibid., vol. 4, p. 505 / § 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 / “,” § 8.
“that nothing but the mere form…”: Schopenhauer, World as Will, vol. 1, p. 315 / § 57.
“Where are there any real monogamists?…”: Saunders, Complete Essays, book 5, p. 86. See also Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 624 / § 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, § 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 / § 156