Is Thought Paralyzing?

In chapter 17, Arendt spends a great deal of time describing Socrates, and the thinking activity itself, as paralyzing in nature. She says that "it is inherent in the stop and think...and it also may have a dazing after-effect" (175). This seemed all well and good to me until she brought it back to her previous analogy of the house. Arendt says of the house "once you have though about its implied meaning...you are no longer as likely to accept for your own home whatever the fashion of the time may prescribe" (175). I disagree. Perhaps my own understanding of what a house is is not in line with "the fashion of the time," but if it can be accurately described as a dwelling place where I choose to plant my life, then even thinking about that does not paralyze my thought on the subject. Meditating on "home is where the heart is" does not make it any less definite to me. Perhaps this disagreement would not carry over to other subjects, but at least in terms of house, I find that thought is not paralyzing.