“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.”

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...