"The very desire for guarantees that our values……" — Isaiah Berlin
"The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past."
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28 Quotes by Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin has 28 quotes on this site.
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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by…
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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all…
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
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To understand is to perceive patterns.
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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.
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Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to…
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But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny…
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Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.
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Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any…
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When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to…
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Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
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No sex, age, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one vastly beneath…
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Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.
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Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology.
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