Walking with Socrates – Great Thinkers and Life's Little Details (Series of Anecdotes about Thinkers)

Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: Walking is beneficial for thinking, a notion almost as ancient as European philosophy. A poor mind needs more walking. To elevate thought from the legs to the head, many philosophers have been obsessed and relentless walkers, a practice as early as ancient Greece. Thales, one of the greatest philosophers of all time, was a walking enthusiast. He would not hesitate to stumble into a well while walking. It is precisely for this reason that his various intellectual achievements were remarkable and had a profound influence. Thales lived in Miletus in the 7th century BC, a small city located in the southern part of Samos Island, along the Ionian coast of Asia Minor.