(The
title is a Latinism of my own making, conceived after the famous Alcaeus/Pliny-the-Elder line “in vino veritas,”
already paraphrased by me elsewhere as "in
vita veritas.")
As
I said before, I always wanted to see myself as a philosopher (a better word
should be a philosophizer),
but I never really understood what philosophy was about. However, in at least
one aspect of my philosophical pursuits I was a bona fide philosopher
in the best Aristotelian tradition.-----
I
have always loved… walking... As a matter of fact, should I choose to
reduce all my essential activities to the minimum of one, with respect to
affording me the greatest pleasure, that
must be walking. Since early
childhood, walking was the best time for my thinking, when I could utterly
liberate myself from all other activities, requiring concentration, and
dedicate myself to thinking. “All truly great
thoughts are conceived by walking,” says Nietzsche, and I
have always, even before I had read any Nietzsche, said Amen to that.
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