Quotes by : Isaiah Berlin

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an....

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would learn....

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live....

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such....

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries;....

Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would triumph;....

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while remaining....

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping....