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Isaiah Berlin was a British philosopher renowned for his contributions to political philosophy, aesthetics, and intellectual history. He was a prominent figure in 20th-century philosophical discourse and held a professorship at the University of Oxford. Berlin's philosophy focused on the significance of individual freedom and the variety of human values.

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“Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”

Humans Justice Liberty Quiet Conscience Fairness Berlin Human Happiness Fairness And Equality

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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.”

Men May Fighting Evil Individual Goal Poverty Ignorance Revolution Slavery Injustice Variety Reform Collectives Live By Setting Goals Predictable Berlin Fighting Evil

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“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 inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

Humans Human Beings Liberty Sake Chosen Ingredients Being Human Berlin

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“All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.”

Humans Matter Belief Spring Berlin Predicaments

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

People Men Mind Firsts Ideas Silence Berlin

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

Way Ideas Resistance Berlin

Book:Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

Source: Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder

About the Author

Born: June 6, 1909
Died: November 5, 1997
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 54

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