True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
Isaiah BerlinThe case against the notion of historical objectivity is like the case against international law, or international morality; that it does not exist.
Isaiah BerlinThose 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.
Isaiah Berlin