Isaiah Berlin
London
14 June 1990

"Men 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 the misery and frustration of men is due to the mechanical and unconscious, as well as deliberate, application of models where they do not work...
The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus operate in the open and not wildly, in the dark."