"\"The Hedgehog and the Fox\" is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It was one of Berlin's most popular essays with the general public. Berlin himself said of the essay: \"I never meant it very seriously. I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously. Every classification throws light on something.\""@en . "The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy\u2019s View of History"@en . . .