...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...unnecessary, unworkable, unconstitutional. I am reminded of the statement by Archilocus, the Greek poet, that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." It is easy to understand how the hedgehogs of intelligence burrowing in pursuit of their goals would...

...unnecessary, unworkable, unconstitutional. I am reminded of the statement by Archilocus, the Greek poet, that "the fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." It is easy to understand how the hedgehogs of intelligence burrowing in pursuit of their goals would...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...distinction between two kinds of genius which Isaiah Berlin derived from an observation of Archilochus - 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' 'Taken figuratively', Berlin concluded, this proverb marks 'one of the deepest differences which divide...