Citations

“Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas — ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.”
Berkeley’s External WorldEn anglais
“Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.”
As quoted in The Listener 1978En anglais
“Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience.”
Two Concepts of LibertyEn anglais
“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.”
Two Concepts of LibertyEn anglais
“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.”
IntroductionEn anglais

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Les livres de Isaiah Berlin dans l'ordre

Les livres de Isaiah Berlin dans l'ordre de parution, de Karl Marx (1939) à Political Ideas in the Romantic Age (2006).