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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs.

Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centur...

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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

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

Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not ...

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Romanticism embodied "a new and restless spirit, seeking violently to burst through old and cramping...

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The Roots of Romanticism

Men would no longer be victims of nature or of their own largely irrational societies: reason would ...

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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

This, for both Schopenhauer and Tolstoy, is the central tragedy of human life; if only men would lea...

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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

The view that the truth is one and undivided, and the same for all men everywhere at all times, whet...

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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

Tolstoy was perfectly right to protest that history is not made to happen by the combination of such...

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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

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I can see how, with enough false education, enough widespread illusion and error, men can, while rem...

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The Power of Ideas

What is Life?(1) Tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.(2) Dictionary def...

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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by othe...

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

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Isaiah Berlin

Philosopher

Born: 1909-06-06

Died: 1997-11-05

Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.More