"10 Isaiah Berlin Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 6 June 1909. Died: 5 November 1997 | Philosopher | Historian |

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

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Freedom Wolves Meant Dealth

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All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

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Against Beings Conditioning Control

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

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Destroy First First People Free

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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

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About Appear Barbarians Came

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Patterns Perceive Understand Wisdom

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

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Against Being Established Ever

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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.

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Collective Cured Evils Fighting

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The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

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Chains Else Enslavement Extension

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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

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Adult Asking Childish Persist

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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

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Absolute Certainties Childhood Craving

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"10 Isaiah Berlin Quotes & Sayings

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

Isaiah Berlin

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

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

Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

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

Isaiah Berlin

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin Quotes & Sayings

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"10 Isaiah Berlin Quotes & Sayings

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

Isaiah Berlin

All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate.

Isaiah Berlin

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

Isaiah Berlin

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin

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

Isaiah Berlin

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

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Isaiah Berlin

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.

Isaiah Berlin

Isaiah Berlin Quotes & Sayings

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