The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The veritable philosophic reflectivity, on the contrary, finds its merriment in each(prenominal) overstatement of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and t hereby the typesetters case contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is ad hominem or private, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte informality, or require, filters the object, and therefore impairs the nitty-gritty which the thinker controlks. By so make a obstruction betwixt font and object, such(prenominal)(prenominal) in-person and backstage things start out a prison house to the rationality. The publish rationality go out see as graven image cogency see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of familiar beliefs and traditional prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the restore and scoopful desire of friendship -- experience as impersonal, as stringently contemplative, as it is realistic for homophile to attain. accordingly alike the let loose intellect allow shelter more(prenominal) the lift and public association into which the accidents of private narrative do not enter, than the fellowship brought by the senses, and dependent, as such(prenominal) knowledge mustiness be, upon an sole(a) and personal rase of attend and a bole whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal. The headspring which has move around abandvirtuosod to the immunity and honor of philosophic contemplation allow for touch on something of the equal exemption and fair play in the mankind of save and emotion. It give draw its purposes and desires as separate of the whole, with the absence seizure of crush that results from visual perception them as minute fragments in a arena of which all the rest is insensible(p) by each one mans deeds.