Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
Isaiah BerlinFew new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.
Isaiah BerlinThe notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution in which all good things coexist, seems to me not merely unobtainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent. ......Some among the great goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth. We are doomed to choose, and every choice may entail an irreparable loss.
Isaiah Berlin