Quotes by : Isaiah Berlin

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....

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....

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....

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

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....