Isaiah Berlin Quotes
Top 23 wise famous quotes and sayings by Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Isaiah Berlin on Wise Famous Quotes.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
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.
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed.
There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
To realise the relative validity of one's convictions and yet stand for them unflinchingly is what distinguishes a civilised man from a barbarian.
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.
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.