All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.
Only ideas won by walking have any value.
What a dissimilarity we see in walking, swimming, and flying. And yet it is one and the same motion: it is just that the load- bearing capacity of the earth differs from that of the water, and that that of the water differs from that of the air! Thus we should also learn to fly as thinkers--and not imagine that we are thereby becoming idle dreamers!
A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking.
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