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NIETZSCHE: The Art of Not Reading (And What to Do Instead)

SUPPORT US ON PATREON: ▶   / weltgeistyt   WATCH: ▶ Why Nietzsche Hated Plato:    • Why Nietzsche Hated Plato   ▶ Why Nietzsche Hated Socrates:    • Why Nietzsche Hated Socrates   ▶ How the Real World Became a Myth:    • NIETZSCHE: How the Real World Became ...   OUR ANALYSES: ▶ Beyond Good and Evil:    • NIETZSCHE Explained: Beyond Good and ...   ▶ The Antichrist:    • NIETZSCHE Explained: The Antichrist (...   ▶ Genealogy of Morals:    • NIETZSCHE Explained: The Genealogy of...   ▶ Twilight of the Idols:    • NIETZSCHE Explained: Twilight of the ...   ▶ The Will to Power:    • NIETZSCHE: Will to Power Explained (a...   ▶ Daybreak:    • NIETZSCHE Explained: DAYBREAK - Thoug...   Even though Nietzsche turned from one of Schopenhauer’s greatest admirers to one of his greatest opponents over the course of his intellectual career, in one aspect at least he was always in agreement with his former mentor. It’s not a good idea to read too many books. A brief passage in Ecce Homo is dedicated to “the scholar”… The type of person who spends his entire day reading books. Nietzsche would’ve been all too familiar with this type of person from his days as a scholar himself, when he was a professor philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Nietzsche’s problem with reading too many books is related to overstimulation. By constantly reading books, you become dependent on their stimulus to formulate your own thoughts. A yes or no or a critique of those thoughts. In other words, you become a reactive being as opposed to a proactive being. Of course, we also know for certain that Nietzsche had around 1100 books in his private library at the end of his life. And those represent less than half of all the books he’s read in his life. So, make no mistake: Nietzsche did read a lot. But he warns against reading too much, and becoming dependent upon books and the ideas of others to formulate your own opinions. In other words, he warned against becoming reactive in your thinking rather than proactive. The first is the hallmark of a critic, someone who takes another person’s system and criticises it. But the proactive thinker comes up with his own system and ideas, he generates original thoughts. Nietzsche doesn’t attribute his inspiration to reading books. Quite the opposite: he states multiple times that his best ideas came to him while being out on a walk, while being physically active in the real world. For example, he famously came up with his concept of the Eternal Recurrence while looking at a rock during one of his hikes in the Swiss Alps.