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Isaiah Berlin Quotes
I meant to behave but there were too many other options
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work
Having you in my life made everything better
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Together is my favorite place to be
Chocolate is the answer. Who cares what the question is
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You had me at hello
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary
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Don't look back you're not going that way
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The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Liberty for wolves is death to the lambs (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Liberty and equality, spontaneity and security, happiness and knowledge, mercy and justice - all these are ultimate human values, sought for themselves alone; yet when they are incompatible, they cannot all be attained, choices must be made, sometimes tragic losses accepted in the pursuit of some preferred ultimate end. (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
One belief, more than any other, is responsible for the slaughter of individuals on the alter of the great historical ideas - justice or progress or happiness of future generations... or emancipation of a nation or race or class... this is the belief that somewhere... there is a final solution (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, nothing completely straight was ever made (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Freedom for the wolves has often meant death to the sheep (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
To understand is to perceive patterns (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
The first people totalitarians destroy or silence are men of ideas and free minds (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
No perfect solution is, not merely in practice, but in principle, possible in human affairs, and any determined attempt to produce it is likely to lead to suffering, disillusionment and failure (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own inner standards of behavior, are objects of fear and derision and targets of persecution for either side... in the great ideological wars of our time (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
The underlying assumption that human nature is basically the same at all times, everywhere, and obeys eternal laws beyond human control, is a conception that only a handful of bold thinkers have dared to question (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
The case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
When a man speaks of the need for realism one may be sure that this is always the prelude to some bloody deed (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
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 (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated (Isaiah Berlin Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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