"If we are to hope to understand the often violent world in which we live(and unless we try to understand it, we cannot expect to be able to act rationally in it and on it), we cannot confine our attention to the great impersonal forces,natural and manmade, which act upon us. The goals and motives that guide human action must be looked at in the light of all that we know and understand; their roots and growth, their essence, and above all their validity, must be critically examined and with every intellectual resource that we have..."
(The Pursuit of the Ideal, by Isiah Berlin)
(The Pursuit of the Ideal, by Isiah Berlin)
