Interesting Quote by Isaiah Berlin

“There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.”

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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is…

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Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

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“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced by choices equally absolute, the realisation of some of…

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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

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The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other…

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made

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Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they can prove…

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Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to…

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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning…

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The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.

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“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…

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Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet…

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