We tend to think that speed, the velocity of the landscape is something we are wrestling with only now in these times. But this is a quote from Nietzsche in 1882:
"One is ashamed of resting, and prolonged reflection almost gives people a bad conscience. One thinks with a watch in one's hand, even as one eats one's midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market, one lives as if one might "miss out on something"...Virtue has come to consist of doing something in less time than someone else."
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