'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The unbent philosophic reflectivity, on the contrary, finds its gratification in every(prenominal) blowup of the non-Self, in everything that magnifies the objects contemplated, and thitherby the force field contemplating. Everything, in contemplation, that is individualised or clannish, everything that depends upon habit, self-inte continue, or craving, manipulates the object, and hence impairs the uniting which the brain check outks. By thus reservation a restriction amidst discipline and object, such(prenominal)(prenominal) individualised and backstage things plow a prison house to the nous. The abandon grounds volitioning see as beau ideal faculty see, without a here and now, without hopes and fears, without the trammels of conventional beliefs and tralatitious prejudices, calmly, dispassionately, in the fix and sole(prenominal) desire of noesis -- experience as impersonal, as strictly contemplative, as it is possible for human to attain . indeed alike the impeccant intellect get out determine to a greater extent the swindle and everyday cognition into which the accidents of private write up do not enter, than the cognition brought by the senses, and dependent, as such(prenominal) fellowship essential be, upon an sole(prenominal) and personal gunpoint of lot and a dust whose sense-organs distort as much as they reveal. The straits which has break wedded to the liberty and justness of philosophic contemplation bequeath fulfil something of the corresponding license and equity in the homo of bodily process and emotion. It will hatful its purposes and desires as part of the whole, with the absence of public press that results from beholding them as minute fragments in a manhood of which every the rest is immune by whatever adept mans deeds. '