Isaiah Berlin Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• The desire not to be impinged upon, to be left to oneself, has been the markof high civilisation both on the part of individuals and communities.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Community, Desire, Individual

  1959 Four Essays on Liberty.

• 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.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Past, Guarantees That, Childhood

  Isaiah Berlin (2014). “Political Ideas in the Romantic Age: Their Rise and Influence on Modern Thought”, p.387, Princeton University Press

• The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Men, Desire, Habit

  Isaiah Berlin (1978). “Karl Marx: His Life and Environment”, p.93, Oxford University Press

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