To philosophize means to remove oneself, not from the things of the everyday world, but from the usual meanings, the accustomed evaluations of these things. And this is not motivated from some decision to think “differently” from the way most people think, but rather for the purpose of seeing everything in a new light. This is just how it is: in the everyday things (not in some separated sphere of an “essential” world, or what have you) to be able to see the deeper visage of the real so that the attention directed to things encountered in everyday experience comes up against what is not so obvious in these things — it is exactly here, in this inner experience, that philosophy has its beginning: in the experience of wonder.
— Josef Pieper in “The Philosophical Act”
