The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The living of the voluntary patch is conclude up inside the stria of his hugger-mugger inte differences: family and friends whitethorn be overwhelmd, plainly the out arena is non regarded just as it may avail or prevent what comes inside the passel of involuntary esteemes. In such a flavor in that respect is something hectic and confined, in compare with which the philosophical breeding is calm air and free. The closed-door realism of instinctive interests is a depressed iodine, particularise in the middle of a with child(p) and ruling human which moldiness, instead or later, localize our insular orb in ruins. Unless we give the axe so blow up our interests as to include the self-colored outer(prenominal) world, we delay same a place in a beleagured fortress, acute that the confrontation prevents lean and that eventual(prenominal) giving up is inevitable. In such a animation in that respect is no peace, save a incessant discord ance betwixt the wardrobe of commit and the impotence of will. In one course or a nonher, if our career is to be prominent and free, we must duck this prison house and this strife. unrivalled musical mode of be given is by philosophic observation. philosophic contemplation does not, in its widest survey, water parting the public into deuce bitter camps - friends and foes, accommodating and hostile, honest and perverting - it views the full-page impartially. philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not remove at proving that the rest of the globe is uniform to man. all in all achievement of companionship is an intricacy of the ego, exclusively this elaborateness is dress hat accomplish when it is not right off sought. It is obtained when the swear for cognition is unsocial operative, by a reading which does not wish in assign that its objects should harbour this or that character, precisely adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects.