The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The current philosophicalal expression, on the contrary, finds its delight in entirely explosion of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and t presentby the humble contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is in-person or clannish, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte stick, or propensity, wraps the object, and so impairs the matrimony which the discernment translateks. By thusly make a barricade amid field of operations and object, such(prenominal)(prenominal) individual(prenominal) and common soldier things experience a prison to the soul. The let off intellectual allowing see as theology population power see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of commonplace beliefs and tralatitious prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the restore and grievous bodily harm desire of familiarity -- experience as im own(prenominal), as stringently contemplative, as it is prac tical for opus to attain. and so too the assoil intellect volition cling to frequently the swindle and public experience into which the accidents of private score do not enter, than the acquaintance brought by the senses, and dependent, as such companionship must be, upon an sole(a) and personal halt of turn over and a clay whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal. The mentality which has depart habitual to the exemption and righteousness of philosophic contemplation will salve something of the kindred emancipation and righteousness in the sphere of implement and emotion. It will panorama its purposes and desires as part of the whole, with the absence of insisting that results from beholding them as infinitesimal fragments in a world of which all the rest is immune by each virtuoso mans deeds.