"We are doomed to choose and every choice……" — Isaiah Berlin
"We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss."
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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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More Choice Quotes
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason…
— Aristotle
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
— Richard Bach
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I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people 'the cops.' But you know, sometimes,…
— Dave Attell
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If social stability goes pear-shaped, you have a choice between anarchy and dictatorship. Most people will opt for more security,…
— Margaret Atwood
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Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the…
— Kevyn Aucoin
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice…
— John Avlon
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Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
— Richard Bach
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What I want to do is to make sure that we fully repeal Obamacare. This will be one of the…
— Michele Bachmann
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