Friedrich Nietzsche 1881 · Sils-Maria
Long walks & thinking
12:00–18:00 · Estimated
Estimated by typical tue. 12:00–18:00 is an illustrative six-hour allocation between the stated meals. His walks could have been spread across the day; neither this start time nor one continuous six-hour walk is documented.Source timing: Five to seven hours of exercise daily; no start time stated.
“5 to 7 hours exercise every day.”
Verbatim excerpt · Friedrich Nietzsche, to his mother
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Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche
Edited by Oscar Levy · translated by Anthony M. Ludovici · Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921
Letter to his mother · Sils-Maria, 24 August 1881
Passage: Letter to his mother, 24 August 1881 · paragraph beginning “(In Genoa I live”
Timing & context
The letter establishes recurrence and total exercise, not a continuous walk. His 14 August letter to Peter Gast also connects new thoughts with his wanderings; see the further evidence below.
Meals, a cold wash, evening rest, and five to seven hours of daily exercise, reported in August 1881. Walking time is shown as an estimated daily allocation.
The routine Nietzsche reports in his letter of 24 August 1881, during his stay in Sils-Maria. The letter describes repeated habits, not only the day it was written.
Further evidence: letter to Peter Gast, 14 August 1881 ↗