I don't wanna live in the Modern World

“Philosophy is not the reading of books; philosophy is not the contemplation of nature, philosophy is not the phenomenology of personal experience; philosophy is not its history,” Wilhelmsen wrote in a striking passage. “These are indispensable tools aiding a man to come to know the things that are. But that knowing is precisely knowing and nothing else. We once were given this, not too long ago, in the American Catholic academy. With a few honorable exceptions, we are given it no longer. Philosophy ultimately exists in conversation. It needs to "talked into existence." But it first must be “thought” into existence.”

Frederick Wilhelmsen, Modern Age