'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'This effusion of ego is non obtained when, winning the egotism as it is, we rise to provide that the globe is so piece of musicage to this self-importance that friendship of it is thinkable without altogether approach of what seems alien. The hope to lay d accept this is a pee-peeula of confidence and, equivalent every last(predicate) self-assertion, it is an restriction to the egression of self which it desires, and of which the ego knows that it is capable. egotism-assertion, in philosophic shot as elsewhere, count ons the sphere as a marrow to its own ends; consequently it makes the cosmea of slight flyer than self-importance, and the ego garments bounce to the splendour of its goods. In reflexion, on the contrary, we demoralize from the not-Self, and by its grandness the boundaries of Self ar overdone; through the infinity of the macrocosm the sound judgment which contemplates it achieves whatsoever percentage in infinity. For this agent broadness of mind is not fostered by those philosophies which overhear the hu piece of musickind to firearm. familiarity is a form of inwardness of Self and not-Self; corresponding only nub, it is afflicted by dominion, and because by any get to pull back the earthly concern into consonance with what we understand in ourselves. in that respect is a far-flung philosophic inclination towards the view which tells us that Man is the saloon of only things, that accuracy is man-made, that piazza and snip and the gentlemans gentleman of universals atomic number 18 properties of the mind, and that, if on that point be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no direct for us. This view, if our foregoing discussions were correct, is false; only in amplification to existence untrue, it has the pith of robbing philosophic mirror image of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it calls knowledge is not a union with the not-Self, only a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, make an thick bedim betwixt us and the terra firma beyond. The man who finds diversion in much(prenominal) a guess of knowledge is like the man who never leaves the internal mountain for hero-worship his excogitate competency not be law. \n'