The Schopenhauer Cure (53 page)

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Authors: Irvin Yalom

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"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

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