ABSTRACT
There is walking and by extension there is dance, although in Nietzsche dancing is emblematic of the divine and is used as a metaphor when applied to the process of thinking and the mobility of ideas. Walking is the key. Nietzsche’s method of study was ambulatory and his thoughts — his insights — were interruptions or apprehensions that seemingly occurred while vigorously in motion.1 Great thoughts were literally vistas perceived from great heights while mobile, vigorous, and alone. By the time he wrote Ecce Homo it was even apparent to him that sedentary thought was a sin: “Remain seated as little as possible, put no trust in any thought that is not born in the open to the accompaniment of free bodily motion.”2
