Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish ques… - Isaiah Berlin

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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

Isaiah Berlin

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Sir Isaiah Berlin (6 June 1909 – 5 November 1997) was a Russian-British political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: Sir Isaiah Berlin • Isaiah Mendelevich Berlin

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No weapon formed against you will have any success ...

But to manipulate men, to propel them towards goals which you — the social reformer — see, but they may not, is to deny their human essence, to treat them as objects without wills of their own, and therefore to degrade them.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions. - Isaiah Berlin

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