10 great quotes by sir isaiah berlin
- Utopias have their value — nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities — but as guides to conduct they can prove literally fatal.
- Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
- All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.
- 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.
- There is no a prior reason for supposing that the truth, when it is discovered, will necessarily prove interesting.
- Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
- The trouble with academics and commentators is that they care more about whether ideas are interesting than whether they are true.
- 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 unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.
- But to manipulate men, to propel them toward goals which you-the social reformers-see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.
- 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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