| Raymond Firth, Maurice Freedman - Anthropology - 1967 - 326 pages
...of inevitability, that every reader 1. The reference is to a line from the Greek poet Archilochus: 'the fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing'. See Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox. The description of Tolstoy — 'by nature a fox, by belief... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1996 - 324 pages
...of Constance much to satisfy them. For the hedgehog mind the tale may tell him all he needs to know. 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' And Chaucer is a fox. He knows that the answer the Man of Law gives is only one point of view, and... | |
| Edward Wasiolek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 264 pages
...Tolstoy's View of History (London and New York, 1953). Berlin has taken the line from the poet Archilochus, "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," and uses this difference to differentiate between those writers who seek a single truth, "who relate... | |
| Ulf Hannerz - Science - 1980 - 394 pages
...specialization. Some cities, of course, may have a greater potential for such ongoing development than others. "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing," the Greek poet Archilochus had it; there are urbanisms which are more like foxes and other which are... | |
| Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter - Architecture - 1984 - 198 pages
...very illuminating, it is at this stage that we feel obliged to call to our assistance Isaiah Berlin. The fox knows many things but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' This, in the area of our concern, is the statement, otherwise uninteresting, which, in The Hedgehog... | |
| Denis Patrick O'Brien, John R. Presley - Biography & Autobiography - 1981 - 308 pages
...fragment from the poet Archilochus, which is well-known through its earlier use by Sir Isaiah Berlin: 'the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing'. Hayek was then referring to his half-century of effort to explain to scholars, politicians and people... | |
| Richard Padovan - Architecture - 2002 - 254 pages
...study of Tolstoy's view of history. lsaiah Berlin borrows a metaphor from the Greek poet Archilochus: The fox knows many things. but the hedgehog knows one big thing'. Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words. which may mean no more... | |
| Julian Lowenthal - Business & Economics - 2002 - 272 pages
...Hedgehog and the Fox There is a line among the fragments of the Greek poet Archilochus which says: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. " Scholars have differed about the correct interpretation of these dark words, which may mean that... | |
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