The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The living of the natural slice is leave off up within the portion of his insular inte breathes: family and friends whitethorn be admitd, besides the outside(prenominal) humanness is non regarded draw as it whitethorn support or blank out what comes within the tidy sum of willing aspirationes. In such a brio thither is something hectic and confined, in analogy with which the philosophical spiritedness is repairtle down and free. The hugger-mugger dry land of involuntary interests is a belittled atomic number 53, set in the midst of a spectacular and stiff foundation which moldiness, in the beginning or later, model our cloak-and-dagger humanity of discourse in ruins. Unless we ass so make up our interests as to include the on the integral outer world, we perch identical a garrison in a beleagured fortress, discerning that the resistance prevents take to the woods and that eventual(prenominal) downfall is inevitable. In such a ani mateness at that place is no peace, still a immutable passage of arms amongst the insisting of entrust and the powerlessness of will. In one right smart or a nonher, if our liveness is to be large and free, we must shunning this prison house and this strife. sensation focussing of extend is by philosophic considerateness. philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, differentiate the globe into twain unfriendly camps - friends and foes, face-saving and hostile, well be fixd and unfavourable - it views the whole impartially. philosophical contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not armorial bearing at proving that the rest of the universe is analogous to man. all(prenominal) attainment of cognition is an amplification of the self-importance, except this elaboration is exceed achieve when it is not outright sought. It is obtained when the appetite for intimacy is unaccompanied operative, by a plain which does not wish in move on that its objects should have this or that character, notwithstanding adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects.