Nietzsche Is Kinda Based in the Introvert Sense
Nietzsche said to "Never trust a thought you had indoors." bc small spaces = small thinking and depression is identical to staying inside all day
I am a massive advocate of ensuring you have some peaceful time alone. After all, I’m a devoted introvert . I love time alone to think. I love long walks where I can muse on ideas and let thoughts churn and mature. But, experiencing something as a group isn’t about thinking.
This is about belonging - it goes to the core of what it is to be human.
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This is about belonging - it goes to the core of what it is to be human.
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Even Introverts Need Crowds
A fundamental paradox at the core of human life is that we are highly social and made better in every way by being around people,” Epley said. “And yet over and over, we have opportunities to connect that we don’t take, or even actively reject, and it is a terrible mistake.”
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Loneliness can be the escape of the sick; loneliness can also be escape from the sick.
Friedrich Nietzsche • The Portable Nietzsche (Portable Library)
Nietzsche emphasized this point when he contrasted the originality of his walk-stimulated ideas with those produced by the bookish scholar locked in a library reacting only to other people’s work. “We do not belong,” he wrote, “to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books.”