[People] cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply affect their lives, not least when they are unconscious; much of [their] misery and frustrationis due to the mechanical and unconscious, as well as deliberate, application of models where they do not workThe goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist [people] to understand themselves and thus operate in the open and not wildly, in the dark.
Isaiah Berlin