Many philosophers are among those who say one thing and do another, and the philosophy that a man professes is often quite other than the one he lives by.
Philosophy is in danger of becoming more and more only something professed.
And to contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself outside it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves. In life, we accept naturally the full reality of what we see and feel in general with no shadow of a doubt. Philosophy, however, does not accept what life believes and strives to convert reality into a problem. Thus, rather than making life easy for living by living in accord with life, philosophy complicates it by replacing the world's tranquillity with the restlessness of problems. That will immediately choke the breath out of him when he consciously describes the process.