/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7264916]

Does Nietzsche ever touch the subject of meditation? I'm interested in reading any of his works where he mentions meditation.

[Anonymous No.7265105]

there isnt much except a short poem about his cozy hut in sils maria. meditation was probably too close to romantic ideas of metaphysical approximation for his taste.

>daybreak #572
>If like the thinker we live habitually amid the great current of ideas and feelings and even our dreams follow this current we expect comfort and peacefulness from life while others wish to rest from life when they give themselves up to meditation
in his fragments he wrote down a similar observation by stendhal about germans:
>A point of difference between the Germans and all other peoples: they are exalted, instead of calming themselves, by meditation.

he criticizes "vita contemplativa" often but there's also this:
>gay science #280
>Architecture for the search for knowledge. An insight is needed (and that probably very soon) as to what is specially lacking in our great cities namely, quiet, spacious, and widely extended places for reflection, places with long, lofty colonnades for bad weather, or for too sunny days, where no noise of wagons or of shouters would penetrate, and where a more refined propriety would prohibit loud praying even to the priest: buildings and situations which as a whole would express the sublimity of self communion and seclusion from the world. The time is past when the Church possessed the monopoly of reflection, when the vita contemplativa had always in the first place to be the vita religiosa: and everything that the Church has built expresses this thought. I know not how we could content ourselves with their structures, even if they should be divested of their ecclesiastical purposes: these structures speak a far too pathetic and too biased speech, as houses of God and places of splendour for super natural intercourse, for us godless ones to be able to think our thoughts in them. We want to have ourselves translated into stone and plant, we want to go for a walk in ourselves when we wander in these halls and gardens.

[Anonymous No.7265121]

is it one guy spamming Nietzsche threads? there are like 10 in the catalog

[Anonymous No.7265311]

>>7265121
Just the 2nd best philosopher ever, mein familie.