Quotes by : Isaiah Berlin

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others.....

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

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

What is Life?(1) Tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.(2) Dictionary definition....

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

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether....

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....

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