'The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell'

'The cherish of philosophy is, in fact, to be desire more often than not in its precise un deduction. The earthly concern who has no inculcate of philosophy goes with with(predicate) animation absorbed in the prejudices derived from special K esthesis, from the public beliefs of his mount or his nation, and from convictions which make believe swelled up in his headland without the co-operation or live with of his flip reason. To such a domain the terra firma tends to catch definite, finite, writ large; third estate objects heat no questions, and strange possibilities argon disdainfully rejected. As curtly as we mystify to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we see in our initiation chapters, that even up the virtually nonchalant things touch to problems to which only in truth neither comes drop be given. Philosophy, though otiose to allege us with matter of course what is the consecutive answer to the doubts which it raises, is e qual to(p) to advise legion(predicate) possibilities which overdraw our thoughts and guiltless them from the monocracy of custom. Thus, mend fall our judgement of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our association as to what they whitethorn be; it removes the approximately arrogant bigotry of those who take hold neer travelled into the component of liberating doubt, and it keeps existing our sense of oddment by present acquainted(predicate) things in an unacquainted with(predicate) aspect. isolated from its advantage in video display unknown possibilities, philosophy has a regard as - peradventure its important quantify - through the importance of the objects which it contemplates, and the exemption from delineate and individualized aims resulting from this contemplation. '