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Freedom2 quotes

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin · 1958 Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. — Isaiah Berlin · 1969

Anchoring effect1 quote

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin · 1976

Decisions and choices1 quote

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human. — Isaiah Berlin · 1969

Hedgehogs and foxes1 quote

There 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 Berlin · 1953

Motivation1 quote

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. — Isaiah Berlin · 1950

Nature of freedom1 quote

Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. — Isaiah Berlin · 1958

Nature of progress1 quote

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin · 1976

Open-mindedness1 quote

There 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 Berlin · 1953

Progress1 quote

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated. — Isaiah Berlin · 1976

Singlemindedness1 quote

There 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 Berlin · 1953

Utopianism1 quote

One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the altars of the great historical ideals... This is the belief that somewhere, in the past or in the future, in divine revelation or in the mind of an individual thinker, in the pronouncements of history or science, or in the simple heart of an uncorrupted good man, there is a final solution. — Isaiah Berlin · 1958

Worldview1 quote

There 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 Berlin · 1953