“The world that we encounter in ordinary experience is one in which we are faced with choices between ends equally ultimate, and claims equally absolute, the realization of some of which must inevitably involve the sacrifice of others.”

About Isaiah Berlin

Philosopher • British

Sir Isaiah Berlin was a British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Born in Riga, Russian Empire, he was the first Jew to be elected to a prize fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. He...