… it used to be extremely normal to just regularly go outside.
You know, go wander around, on foot, for a walk, as a natural instinct.
Nietzche had some kind of significant degenerative neurological disorder that wracked him with pain and worsening motor skills. In 1889 he had a complete collapse, likely a massive stroke, and was essentially paralysed, demented and bedridden for basically the last 10 years of his life.
It is likely he was extremely aware that his worsening condition or increasing frequency of minor strokes were robbing him of his ability to go out for those walks.
As best I can tell, his quote in OP image is… I guess you could say a different translation and/or simplification/bastardization of a line from Ecce Homo.
Remain seated as little as possible, put no trust in any thought that is not born in the open, to the accompaniment of free bodily motion — nor in one in which even the muscles do not celebrate a feast.
Nietzche loved going on Alpine walks. Ecce Homo was finished in 1888, around a year before his totally debilitating major stroke.
So more or less, Nietzche was a man whose philosophy included the idea that one should be physically active while considering things… and he wrote that down roughly a year before a massive stroke robbed him of the ability to do that.
… it used to be extremely normal to just regularly go outside.
You know, go wander around, on foot, for a walk, as a natural instinct.
Nietzche had some kind of significant degenerative neurological disorder that wracked him with pain and worsening motor skills. In 1889 he had a complete collapse, likely a massive stroke, and was essentially paralysed, demented and bedridden for basically the last 10 years of his life.
It is likely he was extremely aware that his worsening condition or increasing frequency of minor strokes were robbing him of his ability to go out for those walks.
As best I can tell, his quote in OP image is… I guess you could say a different translation and/or simplification/bastardization of a line from Ecce Homo.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9526851-later-on-towards-the-middle-of-my-life-i-grew
Nietzche loved going on Alpine walks. Ecce Homo was finished in 1888, around a year before his totally debilitating major stroke.
So more or less, Nietzche was a man whose philosophy included the idea that one should be physically active while considering things… and he wrote that down roughly a year before a massive stroke robbed him of the ability to do that.