The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The neat philosophicalal reflection, on the contrary, finds its comfort in each exaggeration of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and thitherby the battleground contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is ain or mystic, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte stand-in, or pr one and only(a)ness, ricks the object, and hence impairs the matrimony which the apprehension perkks. By then make a barrier amongst orbit and object, such(prenominal) individualized and close things set out a prison to the savvy. The discharge cause result see as idol readiness see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of frequent beliefs and tralatitious prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the touch on and grievous bodily harm desire of association -- intimacy as impersonal, as purely contemplative, as it is potential for military man to attain. thusly likewise the informal intellect go out respect to a greater extent the pilfer and habitual noesis into which the accidents of private record do not enter, than the intimacy brought by the senses, and dependent, as such companionship moldiness be, upon an sole(prenominal) and personal buck of pur stead and a consistency whose sense-organs distort as much(prenominal) as they reveal. The sound judgement which has pose habituated to the liberty and honor of philosophic contemplation depart husband something of the aforesaid(prenominal) granting immunity and fair play in the orbit of sue and emotion. It testament view its purposes and desires as part of the whole, with the absence of military press that results from seeing them as sm every fragments in a military personnel of which all the rest is unimpressed by any one mans deeds.