Speech · Philosophical literature · Political literatureLiberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.Isaiah BerlinTwo Concepts of Liberty · 1958★ 3.6
Essay · Philosophical literatureThere exists a great chasm between those, on one side, who relate everything to a single, central vision, one system more or less coherent or articulate, in terms of which they understand, think and feel... And on the other side, those who pursue many ends, often unrelated and even contradictory... The first kind of intellectual and artistic personality belongs to the hedgehogs, the second to the foxes... Dante belongs to the first category, Shakespeare to the second.Isaiah Berlin1953★ 3.5
Essay · Philosophical literatureFew new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.Isaiah Berlin1976★ 3.5
Essay · Magazine · Philosophical literature · Political literatureInjustice, 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.Isaiah BerlinForeign Affairs · 1950★ 1.9
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