Our beliefs are already operating in the depths of our lives when we begin to think about something. Our beliefs constitute the basis of our lives, the ground on which human life unfolds....All our behaviour, including our intellectual activities, depends on our system of authentic beliefs. We live, act and exist within our beliefs. For precisely that reason, we do not have a very clear perception of our beliefs, and we usually do not think about them. Yet those beliefs, operating in a latent fashion, are a part of our conscious acts and thoughts.
Jose Ortega y Gasset