If you want to find out how a philosopher feels when his is engaged in the practice of his profession, go to the nearest zoo and watch a chimpanzee at the wearying and hopeless job of chasing fleas. Both suffer damnably and neither can win...For the absolute, of course, is a mere banshee. No such thing exists. Philosophy in the narrow technical sense is largely moonshine and wind music.
In The American Jungle: 1925-1936
by Waldo Frank
from Aesthete 1925
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