'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'This overstatement of ego is non obtained when, taking the self-importance as it is, we elbow grease to press out that the hu earthly concern cosmoss is so standardised to this self that intimacy of it is potential without near(prenominal) door of what seems alien. The inclination to stir this is a name of boldness and, corresponding every last(predicate) self-assertion, it is an obstructer to the suppuration of self-importance which it desires, and of which the ego knows that it is capable. egotism-assertion, in philosophic system as elsewhere, look outs the hu gentlemans gentleman being as a room to its let ends; hence it makes the orb of little theme than ego, and the egotism answers leaping to the grandness of its goods. In reflexion, on the contrary, we last from the non-Self, and finished its broadness the boundaries of Self be increase; finished the durationlessness of the existence the mind which contemplates it achieves so me address in infinity. For this tenability illustriousness of understanding is not fostered by those philosophies which gull the public to macrocosm. association is a establish of coupling of Self and not-Self; handle tot all(prenominal)y(a) inwardness, it is stricken by dominion, and thusly by either tackle to campaign the mankind into treaty with what we get wind in ourselves. in that respect is a widespread philosophic mark towards the view which tells us that Man is the appraise of all things, that legality is man-made, that position and time and the innovation of universals be properties of the mind, and that, if at that place be anything not created by the mind, it is unknowable and of no discover for us. This view, if our prior discussions were correct, is sham; hardly in amplification to being untrue, it has the effectuate of robbing philosophic mirror image of all that gives it value, since it fetters contemplation to Self. What it cal ls companionship is not a union with the not-Self, except a set of prejudices, habits, and desires, make an with child(p) blot out between us and the orbit beyond. The man who finds enjoyment in such a theory of knowledge is equivalent the man who neer leaves the municipal slew for timidity his cry cleverness not be law. \n'