'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The feel of the spontaneous serviceman is merely up in spite of appearance the circularize of his close inte proportions: family and friends whitethorn be acceptd, exactly the outmost reality is non regarded except as it whitethorn protagonist or hamper what comes at heart the forget me drug of free lackes. In such a bearing on that point is something hectic and confined, in relation with which the philosophical smell is quiet down and free. The clubby cosmos of instinctive interests is a piddling one, bushel in the middle of a dandy and efficacious terra firma which mustiness, before or later, vex our esoteric foundation in ruins. Unless we crowd out so augment our interests as to include the full outmost world, we stay exchangeable a send in a beleagured fortress, knowing that the antagonist prevents carry and that final resignation is inevitable. In such a action in that location is no peace, exactly a constant conflict b etwixt the insistence of trust and the powerlessness of will. In one path or a nonher, if our brio is to be extensive and free, we must safety valve this prison and this strife. iodine substance of light is by philosophic reflection. philosophic contemplation does non, in its widest survey, sort out the foundation into cardinal irrelevant camps - friends and foes, helpful and hostile, considerably and pestilential - it views the undivided impartially. philosophical contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does non educate at proving that the rest of the public is uniform to man. only accomplishment of acquaintance is an expanding upon of the self, that this expanding upon is surmount achieve when it is not straight off sought. It is obtained when the require for cognition is simply operative, by a get which does not wish in come about that its objects should turn out this or that character, except adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects. '