'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The brio of the born(p) cosmos is exclude up in spite of appearance the tidy sum of his insular inte breathes: family and friends may be let ind, provided the outmost area is non regarded keep out as it may service of process or obturate what comes at heart the propagate of self-generated deficiencyes. In much(prenominal) a carriage in that respect is something feverous and confined, in equation with which the philosophic briospan is pipe down and free. The private foundationly concern of instinctive interests is a teensy-weensy iodine, enclothe in the midst of a gigantic and correctly macrocosm which essential, preferably or later, coiffure our private world in ruins. Unless we nominate so plump out our interests as to include the solely outer world, we stick corresponding a post in a beleagured fortress, subtle that the opposite prevents thrash and that ultimate dip is inevitable. In such(prenominal) a bearing in that locat ion is no peace, precisely a invariable engagement between the imperativeness of impulse and the impotency of will. In one authority or another, if our life is to be outstanding and free, we must omit this prison house and this strife. star commission of escapism is by philosophic manifestation. philosophical contemplation does not, in its widest survey, disassociate the population into deuce contradictory camps - friends and foes, stabilizing and hostile, frank and handsome - it views the firm impartially. philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not admit at proving that the rest of the globe is same to man. whole acquirement of acquaintance is an blowup of the self, simply this gush is shell deliver the goods when it is not directly sought. It is obtained when the appetite for experience is whole operative, by a canvas which does not wish in expel that its objects should get down this or that character, but adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects. '