Translations

Summary

(The translations are keyed by page and listed in order of occurrence.)

Chapter 1

3 ‘It must be possible for the “I think” to accompany all my representations.’

‘There is no I on the unreflexive level.’

‘The ego only ever appears when one is not looking at it … by nature the Ego is fleeting.’

‘So the intuition of the Ego is a perpetually deceptive mirage.’

‘the death of consciousness’

4 ‘How could I have done that!’

5 ‘the digestive philosophy of empirico-criticism, of neo-kantianism’

‘Consciousness and the world are given together: external in essence to consciousness, the world is, in essence, relative to it.’

‘conscious of itself non-thetically’

‘it is to this extent, and only to this extent, that one can say of an emotion that it is not sincere’

‘the qualities intended in objects are apprehended as true’

‘If we love a woman, it is because she is lovable.’

‘Emotion is endured. We cannot get out of it as we wish, it exhausts itself but we cannot stop it.’

‘bewitched, overwhelmed, by our own emotion’

6 ‘the “seriousness” of emotion’

‘One can stop running away; one cannot stop trembling.’

‘My hands will remain frozen.’

‘Consciousness is not limited to projecting affective meanings onto the world around it: it lives the new world which it has just constituted.’

‘on the one hand an object in the world, and on the other the immediate lived experience of consciousness’

The origin of emotion is a spontaneous, lived degradation of consciousness in the face of the world.’