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A small philosophical refusal: abstract thinking will not deliver anyone into normality.

The page rejects the fantasy that thought can cure estrangement. 'Recognition' here is not enlightenment but the blunt realization that intellectual distance may clarify experience without making it socially livable.

Titled 'Recognition', the page states: 'I think anyone who expects abstract thinking / to bring them a normal condition / Is not doing it in the first place'.

The aphorism treats abstract thought as something that necessarily unsettles ordinary life, so expecting it to produce normality proves one is not really thinking. The title suggests a moment of self-recognition, the speaker accepting estrangement as the price and evidence of genuine reflection.