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«To understand is to perceive patterns»
«Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.»
«Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«For all his sense of history, his large, untroubled, easy-going style of life, his unshakable feeling of personal security, his natural assumption of being at home in the great world far beyond the confines of his own country, Roosevelt was a typical child of the twentieth century and of the New World.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.»
Author: 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.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
«Churchill for all his love of the present hour, his unquenchable appetite for new knowledge, his sense of the technological possibilities of our time, and the restless roaming of his fancy in considering how they might be most imaginatively applied, despite his enthusiasm for Basic English, or the siren suit which so upset his hosts in Moscow - despite all this, Churchill remains a European of the nineteenth century.»
Author: Isaiah Berlin
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