Friedrich Nietzsche
“Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (written 1888), “Maxims and Arrows” §34 — tr. Anthony Ludovici, 1911
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (written 1888), “Maxims and Arrows” §34 — tr. Anthony Ludovici, 1911
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“Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.”
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Nietzsche did his real thinking on foot — in the Alps, along the Italian coast — and trusted almost nothing that arrived at a desk. He composed Twilight of the Idols in a matter of weeks, one of his most compressed and combative books.
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I thought of the story about Steve Jobs walking and working. Walter Isaacson mentions this in his biography. You understand if you are a walker.
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