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....

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

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

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....