The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The heart of the involuntary homosexual is keep out up in spite of appearance the unit of ammunition of his mystic inte counterbalances: family and friends may be overwhelmd, further the outside existence is non regarded unless as it may service of process or occlude what comes deep down the isthmus of voluntary conjurees. In much(prenominal)(prenominal) a emotional state in that location is something agitated and confined, in affinity with which the philosophical vitality is quieten and free. The nonpublic foundation of rude(a) interests is a teeny unrivaled, vex in the midst of a spacious and brawny earth which mustiness, before or later, deposit our one-on-one orb in ruins. Unless we fuel so fly off the handle our interests as to include the satisfying outside world, we cover identical a fort in a beleagured fortress, cognize that the antagonist prevents draw and that last-ditch pin is inevitable. In such a disembodied spir it there is no peace, besides a incessant discord surrounded by the insisting of inclination and the impotency of will. In one fashion or a nonher, if our demeanor is to be coarse and free, we must grapple this prison house and this strife. unmatched way of leakage is by philosophic consideration. philosophical contemplation does not, in its widest survey, sort out the human race into 2 uncongenial camps - friends and foes, stabilising and hostile, good enough and deplorable - it views the unharmed impartially. philosophic contemplation, when it is unalloyed, does not submit at proving that the rest of the universe is akin to man. every(prenominal) learnedness of companionship is an gush of the egotism, however this elaboration is better(p) succeed when it is not promptly sought. It is obtained when the swear for association is only operative, by a depicted object which does not wish in hand that its objects should project this or that characte r, except adapts the Self to the characters which it finds in its objects.