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Isaiah Berlin quotes: The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

One must look at what impiety hates, what puts it in a rage, what it attacks always, everywhere, and with fury - that will be the truth.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.

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

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.

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

Isaiah Berlin quotes: The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.

Fontenelle was the most civilized man of his time, and indeed of most times.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.

To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.

The only thing which can be regarded as properly tragic is resistance, resistance on the part of a man to whatever it is that oppresses him.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: To understand is to perceive patterns.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

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

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 quotes: True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss.

Isaiah Berlin quotes: The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.