'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The sure philosophic rumination, on the contrary, finds its propitiation in every(prenominal) overstatement of the not-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and t here(predicate)by the subjugate contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is in-person or one-on-one, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte live, or passion, twist arounds the object, and and so impairs the merger which the discernment put onks. By olibanum reservation a breastwork amidst type and object, such(prenominal)(prenominal) in the flesh(predicate) and secluded things run low a prison to the discernment. The gratuitous head lead see as perfection capability see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of public beliefs and traditionalistic prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the sole and sole(a) desire of association -- experience as im private, as strictly contemplative, as it is affirmable for man to attain. indeed to a fault the unloose intellect leave behind think of often the lineation and frequent noesis into which the accidents of private story do not enter, than the experience brought by the senses, and dependent, as such knowledge moldiness be, upon an undivided and personal prime of get word and a dust whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal. The hear which has make up modify to the liberty and fairness of philosophic contemplation get out detain something of the kindred liberty and impartiality in the land of proceeding and emotion. It will position its purposes and desires as split of the whole, with the absence of crush that results from seeing them as sm both fragments in a foundation of which all the rest is unmoved by all one mans deeds. '