[1] These epigrams form the close of Schiller's poem "Die Philosophen," which is worth reading in this connection--(_Translator_.)
[2] More correctly, Huitzilopochtli: a Mexican deity.
[3] Or "shall," as in the "thou shall," of the Decalogue --(_Translator_.)
[4] "_Des Pudels Kern_"; _V._ Goethe's _Faust_, Part I. _Studirzimmer._ Schopenhauer means that his analysis has forced the real meaning out of Kant's language, just as Faust by his exorcism compels Mephistopheles, who was in the form of a poodle, to resume his true form.--(_Translator_.)
[5] _ὅ,τι_: _i.e._, the "what" a thing is; its principle, or essence.--(_Translator_.)
[6] _διότι_: _i.e._, the "wherefore" of a thing; its _raison d'être,_ its underlying cause.--(_Translator_.)
[7] Schopenhauer was doubtless thinking of the famous myth in Plato's _Symposium_ Chap. 23 (Teubner's edition, Leipzig, 1875), where Eros is represented as the offspring of _Πόρος_ and _Πενία_, who on the birthday of Aphrodite were united in the garden of Zeus.--(_Translator._)
[8] Hugo Grotius attributes it to the Emperor Severus.
[9] Azote=Nitrogen. The formula for Ammonium Chloride or Sal-ammoniac is NH4Cl.--(_Translator_).
[10] To be found in the fifth number of the _Beiträge zur Uebersicht der Philosophie am Anfange des_ 19. _Jahrhunderts_--a journal of the greatest importance for critical philosophy.
[11] "_Einen erklecklichen_ SATZ, _ja, und der auch was_ SETZT." SCHILLER.
[12] To argue from impossibility to non-existence is valid--_i.e._ the impossibility of a thing makes its non-existence a safe conclusion.--(_Translator._)
_Dacht' ich's doch! Wissen sie nichts Vernünftiges mehr_ _zu erwidern,_ _Schieben sie's Einem geschwind in das Gewissen hinein_. --SCHILLER, _Die Philosophen._
_Just as I thought! Can they give no more any answer of reason,_ _Quickly the ground is changed: Conscience, they say, is at fault._ --(_Translator._)
[14] As from the Pythian tripod: _i.e._,--with official authority, _ex cathedra._
[15] _V_. Aristoph., _Aves_, 819 _et alibi_.--(_Translator_.)
[16] _λόγιμος_ means "remarkable," being never used in the sense of "rational." _Tὸ logikὸn_ is perhaps a possible expression; the right word is _λόγος_.--(_Translator_.)