enough time
“He notes that we are deaf to the sounds we hear around us, including the sounds and echoes of our own being. We find it difficult to find the time needed to digest life’s experiences - our heart (and our ear) is simply not in it. We exist in an absent-minded manner…Of necessity we are strangers to ourselves. We essentially seek to bring knowledge back home - that is, to a familiar time and place. Our desire is to see ourselves reflected always in all our events and actions. We want knowledge that is familiar and that will not place demands of time on us. Nietzsche asks whether we are serious enough about acquiring self-knowledge and whether we can find ‘enough time’ for the task.” - Ansell Pearson, How to Read Nietzsche
