“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in the pronouncements of sacred books, traditional wisdom, the authority of churches, democratic majorities, observation and experiment… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist. — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
“True pluralism, as Berlin understands it, is much more tough-minded and intellectually bold: it rejects the view that all conflicts of values can be… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
“The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whether one finds it in… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
The most passionate, consistent, extreme and implacable enemy of the Enlightenment and ... all forms of rationalism ... was Johann Georg Hamann. His influence,… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share
