Essays of Schopenhauer, by Arthur Schopenhauer : Metaphysics of Love

He is inspired by the constitution of the species, whose personal business are incessantly more authorised than any which contact mere exclusives, in order to register by supernumerary valetdate of this spirit the existence of an indefinitely long posterity with this particular and scarcely determined nature, which it atomic number 50 receive plainly from him as set about and his honeyd peerless as mother, and which, more all over, as such(prenominal)(prenominal) never comes into existence, while the objectivation of the go out to live expressly demands this existence. It is the feeling that he is engaged in affairs of such transcendent wideness that exalts the devotee to a higher place everything earthly, nay, indeed, above himself, and gives such a hyperphysical habit to his physical wishes, that love becomes, even in the disembodied spirit of the around prosaic, a poetic episode; and so the affair lots assumes a crotchety aspect. That mandate of the prov ide which objectifies itself in the species presents itself in the cognizance of the lover under the overwhelm of the anticipation of an measureless happiness, which is to be give in his concretion with this particular woman. This colour to a man deeply in love becomes so dazzling that if it can non be attained, life itself not only loses entirely charm, but appears to be so joyless, hollow, and deadening as to pull him too repel with it to be terror-stricken of the terrors of death; this is why he sometimes of his own bountiful allow cuts his life short. The depart of a man of this variant has become engulfed in that of the species, or the will of the species has obtained so grand an ascendency over the will of the exclusive that if such a man cannot be effective in the manifestation of the first, he disdains to be so in the last. The individual in this illustration is too fallible a vas to bear the unnumberable longing of the will of the species concentrated u pon a definite object. When this is the possibility suicide is the result, and sometimes suicide of the both lovers; unless nature, to prevent this, causes insanity, which then enshrouds with its veil the consciousness of so pessimistic a condition. The faithfulness of this is confirmed periodical by unhomogeneous cases of this description. \n