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.
Citations
Berlin, Isaiah. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas. Knopf, 1991, p. 237.
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Sir Isaiah Berlin OM CBE FBA was a Latvian-born British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy.