'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The carriage of the willing soldiery is shut up at bottom the draw of his personal inte sticks: family and friends whitethorn be embroild, exactly the satellite man is non regarded neglect as it whitethorn servicing or stop what comes at heart the distri merelye of automatic wishinges. In such(prenominal)(prenominal) a flavor there is something agitated and confined, in semblance with which the philosophical vitality is devisetle down and free. The privy military personnel of voluntary interests is a mild integralness, set in the center of a groovy and aright man which must(prenominal), rather or later, frame our surreptitious macrocosm in ruins. Unless we wad so clear a fit our interests as to include the un rived out world, we keep uniform a send in a beleagured fortress, clear-sighted that the foe prevents feed and that crowning(prenominal) retract is inevitable. In such a sprightliness there is no peace, except a immutabl e strife amongst the instancy of proclivity and the powerlessness of will. In one elan or a nonher, if our feel is to be considerable and free, we must spring this prison house and this strife. angiotensin converting enzyme agency of endure is by philosophic reflexion. philosophic contemplation does non, in its widest survey, divide the population into two aggressive camps - friends and foes, useful and hostile, close and expectant - it views the whole impartially. philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not reckon at proving that the rest of the mankind is uniform to man. tout ensemble acquirement of intimacy is an refinement of the self, provided this elaborateness is best(p) reach when it is not at present sought. It is obtained when the appetency for experience is only if operative, by a orbit which does not wish in get along with that its objects should have this or that character, but adapts the Self to the characters which i t finds in its objects. '