To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eterna… - Isaiah Berlin

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To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men.

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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Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I shall make you a light to the nations so that my salvation may reach the remotest parts of earth.

Everyone knows what made Berkeley notorious. He said that there were no material objects. He said the external world was in some sense immaterial, that nothing existed save ideas — ideas and their authors. His contemporaries thought him very ingenious and a little mad.

To confuse our own constructions and inventions with eternal laws or divine decrees is one of the most fatal delusions of men. - Isaiah Berlin

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