Full Idea
Philosophy should show us the hierarchy of our instinctive beliefs, ..and show that they do not clash, but form a harmonious system. There is no reason to reject an instinctive belief, except that it clashes with others.
Gist of Idea
Philosophy verifies that our hierarchy of instinctive beliefs is harmonious and consistent
Source
Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy [1912], Ch. 2)
Book Reference
Russell,Bertrand: 'The Problems of Philosophy' [OUP 1995], p.12
A Reaction
This is open to the standard objections to the coherence theory of truth (as explained by Russell!), but I like this view of philosophy. Somewhere behind it is the rationalist dream that the final set of totally consistent beliefs will have to be true.