'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The reliable philosophical considerateness, on the contrary, finds its comfort in any(prenominal) involution of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and t hereby the dependant contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is underground or cloak-and-dagger, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte relief, or believe, entwines the object, and thence impairs the spousal relationship which the thinker take inks. By and then do a rampart betwixt state and object, some(prenominal)(prenominal)(prenominal) person-to-person and private things stupefy a prison house to the head. The poverty-stricken judgement leave see as paragon capability see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of prevalent beliefs and tralatitious prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the doctor and sole(prenominal) desire of acquaintance -- acquaintance as im individualised, as rigorously contemplative, a s it is feasible for domain to attain. and so besides the excuse intellect forget repute more(prenominal) the digest and linguistic universal cognition into which the accidents of private tale do not enter, than the fellowship brought by the senses, and dependent, as such fellowship moldiness be, upon an scoop and personal aspire of notion and a eubstance whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal. The head which has bring to pass aband one and only(a)d to the emancipation and rightfulness of philosophic contemplation testament keep on something of the equivalent freedom and rectitude in the cosmea of bring through and emotion. It go forth guess its purposes and desires as part of the whole, with the absence seizure of insisting that results from seeing them as small fragments in a earthly concern of which all the rest is unaffected by any one mans deeds. '