to you, Jason, and to you, Marsha—something that Philip
and I learned from Julius, our teacher. Now, I`m sure you
two feel like this is a stormy beginning but I`ve got a
hunch, a very strong hunch, that by the end of this group,
each of you are going to prove very valuable to the other.
Right, Philip?»
«Right you are, partner.»
Notes
«Every breath we draw wards...”: Arthur
Schopenhauer,The World as Will and Representation, trans.
E. F. J. Payne, 2 vols. (New York: Dover Publications,
1969), vol. 1., p. 311 / В§ 57
«Ecstasy in the act of copulation...”: Arthur
Schopenhauer,Manuscript Remains in Four Volumes, ed.
Arthur HГјbscher, trans. E. F. J. Payne (Oxford: Berg
Publishers, 1988‫90), vol. 3. p. 262 / § 111
«Life is a miserable thing...”: Eduard Grisebach,
ed.,Schopenhauer`s Gespräche und Selbstgespräche
(Berlin: E. Hofmann, 1898), p. 3
«Talent is like a marksman...”: Schopenhauer,World as
Will, vol. 2, p. 391 / chap. 31, «On Genius.»
«No one helped me,...”: RГјdiger Safranski,Schopenhauer
and the Wild Years of Philosophy, trans. Ewald Osers
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991), p. 11.
«A happy life is impossible...”: Arthur
Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, trans. E. F. J.
Payne, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), vol. 2, p.
322 / В§ 172a.
«The solid foundations of our view...”: Ibid., vol. 1, p. 478
/ chap. 6, «On the Different Periods of Life.»
«Splendor, rank, and title exercise...”:
Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 14.
«I no more pretended ardent love...”: Ibid., p. 13
«If we look at life in its small details...”: T. Bailey
Saunders, trans.,Complete Essays of Schopenhauer: Seven
Books in One Volume (New York: Wiley, 1942), book 5, p.
24. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,
vol. 2, p. 290 / В§ 147a.
«in the near and penetrating eye of death...”: Thomas
Mann,Buddenbrooks, trans. H. T. Lowe–Porter (New York:
Vintage Books, 1952), p. 509
«A master–mind could lay hold...”: Ibid., p. 510
«Have I hoped to live on...”: Ibid., p. 513
«so perfectly consistently clear...”: Thomas Mann,Essays
of Three Decades, trans. H. T. Lowe–Porter (New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), p. 373
«emotional, breath–taking, playing between violent
contrasts...”: Ibid., p. 373.
«letting that dynamic, dismal genius work...”: Ronald
Hayman,Nietzsche: A Critical Life (New York: Penguin,
1982), p. 72
«Religion has everything on its side...”:
Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 166 / chap. 17, «On
Man`s Need for Metaphysics.»
«Could we foresee it...”: Saunders,Complete Essays, book
5, p. 3. See also Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena,
vol. 2, p. 298 / В§ 155a.
«In endless space countless luminous spheres...”:
Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 3 / chap. 1, «On the
Fundamental View of Idealism.»
«Just because the terrible activity...”: Ibid., vol. 2, p. 394 /
chap. 31, «On Genius.»
«by far the happiest part...”: Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 26
«Remember how your father permits...”: Ibid., p. 29
«feeling of two friends meeting...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga
and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 299 / В§ 156
«I found myself in a country unknown to me...”:
Safranski,Schopenhauer, p. 280
«The greatest wisdom is to make...”:
Schopenhauer,Parerga and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 284 /
В§ 143.
«The kings left their crowns and scepters behind...”:
Safranski,Shopenhauer, p. 44.
«put aside all these authors for a while...”: Ibid., p. 37
«In my seventeenth year...”: Ibid., p. 41
«This world is supposed to have been made...”: Ibid., 58
«When, at the end of their lives...”: Schopenhauer,Parerga
and Paralipomena, vol. 2, p. 285 / В§ 145
«A person of high, rare mental gifts...”:
Schopenhauer,World as Will, vol. 2, p. 388 / chap. 31, «On
Genius.»
«Noble, excellent spirit to whom I owe everything...”:
Safranski,Shopenhauer, p. 278.
«Dancing and riding do not make...” and other quotations
from Heinrich`s letters: Ibid., pp. 52‫53
«I know too well how little you had...”: Ibid., p. 81
«I continued to hold my position...”: Ibid., p. 55
«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
