They conceive of every necessity as troublesome, as a painful compulsory obedience and state of constraint; thinking itself is regarded by them as something slow and hesitating, almost as a trouble, and often enough as “worthy of the sweat of the noble”—but not at all as something easy and divine, closely related to dancing and exuberance! “To think” and to take a matter “seriously,” “arduously”—that is one and the same thing to them;
He describes the thought pattern of mania, a speedy rush of ideas which cannot pause for critical assessment. Errors cannot be identified. Mania is not healthy. It is like depression but bad in the other direction.
