Isaiah Berlin's Profile
Brief about Isaiah Berlin: By info that we know Isaiah Berlin was born at 1909-06-06. And also Isaiah Berlin is Russian Philosopher.
Some Isaiah Berlin's quotes. Goto "Isaiah Berlin's quotation" section for more.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.
Tags: Ignorance, Men, PositiveAll 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.
Tags: Control, Human, MenOnly 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.
Tags: Whether, Why, WishFew new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Tags: Against, Few, IdeasThe first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds.
Tags: Free, Men, SilenceTo understand is to perceive patterns.
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