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Nietzsche thought solitude's effect was positive, and something to be cultivated, not something that will "drive you mad" It's funny how easily self-deception
by kirse 17y ago
Nietzsche thought solitude's effect was positive, and something to be cultivated, not something that will "drive you mad"
It's funny how easily self-deception takes over the mind, while a single external perspective would easily have pointed out the error in his ways.
It always amazes me how much people frequently hail and agree with the life perspectives of a man who was, for all purposes, clinically psychotic and mentally unstable most of the time.
I'm a fan of occasional philosophical thinking in private to ensure that the way I'm doing things lines up with my conscience, otherwise I've long since concluded that the maximum potential to create change in this world is not by thinking about it, but by doing (especially in the company of others).
- gnosis 17y ago"It always amazes me how much people frequently hail and agree with the life perspectives of a man who was, for all purposes, clinically psychotic and mentally unstable most of the time." He was only "mentally unstable" towards the very end of his life. Virtually everything he wrote he wrote before that period, when he was as sane as anyone else. In any event, even if he was as mad as a hatter his whole life (which he wasn't), that would not necessarily mean that what he wrote was worthless. What a person writes should be judged on its own merits, not on those of its author.