these things take time

Schopenhauer’s work all his life was
to be distinguished by an unmistakable,
often almost physical, rootedness in
lived thought and experience. As
regards philosophy, he came to feel
that the most important difference
between academic philosophers and real ones was that the former encountered
and acquired their philosophical
problems conceptually, by study, and
the latter existentially, by involuntary
reflection on their own existence and
experience. For the former, philosophy
is entirely a verbal activity, a matter of
reading and writing, of talking and
listening: for the latter, the most
important parts of it are rooted in
non-verbal being and living, and have
something profoundly in common with creative art. For the former, philosophy
is an illuminating interest and an
enjoyable, serious pursuit: for the latter
it is inseparable from life itself, and may
be a matter of life and death. The
former might make good teachers, but
only the latter are likely to make
original contributors to the subject.