Isaiah Berlin Quotes

Isaiah Berlin

Russian Philosopher

Born: Jun 6, 1909

Died: Nov 5, 1997

Asking Ideas Men Patterns Positive Values

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Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs. Isaiah Berlin

Death Liberty Wolves Lambs

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

Positive Ignorance Injustice Goals Collective Men Poverty Revolution Fighting Live Evils Only Variety Vast Individual Seldom Times Cured Reform May Predictable Them Incompatible Slavery

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. Isaiah Berlin

Childish Philosophers Adult Questions Persist Asking Who

To understand is to perceive patterns. Isaiah Berlin

Perceive Understand Patterns

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

Silence People Men Free First Minds Destroy Ideas First People

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

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