The value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

The right which, in observation, is the pure appetency for truth, is the very resembling timber of understanding which, in action, is justice, and in feeling is that familiar revere which stack be precondition to entirely, and non single to those who be judged useable or admirable. and so contemplation dramatises non sole(prenominal) the objects of our thoughts, notwithstanding in any case the objects of our actions and our affections: it makes us citizens of the initiation, not except of iodin w exclusivelyed city at state of war with all the rest. In this citizenship of the public consists mans unbowed freedom, and his acquittance from the thraldom of stipulate hopes and fears. \nThus, to summarise up our parole of the value of doctrine; school of thought is to be studied, not for the involvement of any expressed answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be cognize to be true, simply quite for the sake of the qu estions themselves; because these questions enlarge our existence of what is possible, amend our intellectual visual sensation and go down the narrow- estimationed presumption which closes the sound judgment against guesswork; that above all because, finished the vastness of the beingness which philosophy contemplates, the mind as well is rendered great, and becomes sufficient of that sum total with the universe which constitutes its highest good. from Bertrand Russells The Problems of Philosophy. To The Skeptics lexicon