shcure, page 39
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 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 / 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
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 /
"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
support and guidance at HarperCollins), Kent Carroll, and
my extraordinary in-house editors--my son, Ben, and my
wife, Marilyn. To many friends and colleagues who read
parts or all of the manuscript and offered suggestions: Van
and Margaret Harvey, Walter Sokel, Ruthellen Josselson,
Carolyn Zaroff, Murray Bilmes, Julius Kaplan, Scott
Wood, Herb Kotz, Roger Walsh, Saul Spiro, Jean Rose,
Helen Blau, David Spiegel. To my support group of fellow
therapists who, throughout this project, offered unwavering
friendship and sustenance. To my amazing and
multitalented agent, Sandy Dijkstra, who among other
contributions suggested the title (as she did for my
preceding book, The Gift of Therapy ). To my research
assistant, Geri Doran.
Much of the Schopenhauer correspondence that
exists either remains untranslated or has been clumsily
rendered into English. I am indebted to my German
research assistants, Markus Buergin and Felix Reuter, for
their translation services and their prodigious library
research. Walter Sokel offered exceptional intellectual
guidance and helped translate many of the Schopenhauer
epigrams preceding each chapter into English that more
reflects Schopenhauer's powerful and lucid prose.
In this work, as in all others, my wife, Marilyn,
served as a pillar of support and love.
Many fine books guided me in my writing. By far, I
am most heavily indebted to Rudiger Safranski's
magnificent biography, Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of
Philosophy (Harvard University Press, 1989) and grateful to him for his generous consultation in our long
conversation in a Berlin cafe. The idea of bibliotherapy--
curing oneself through reading the entire corpus of
philosophy--comes from Bryan Magee's excellent
book, Confessions of a Philosopher (New York: Modern
Library, 1999). Other works that informed me were Bryan
Magee's The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1983; revised 1997; John E.
Atwell's Schopenhauer: The Human Character
(Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990); Christopher
