In Erasmus's Adagia from 1500, the expression is recorded as Multa novit vulpes, verum echinus unum magnum. The title is a reference to a fragment attributed to the Ancient Greek poet Archilochus: πόλλ' οἶδ' ἀλώπηξ, ἀλλ' ἐχῖνος ἓν μέγα ("a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing"). It has been compared to "an intellectual's cocktail-party game". Every classification throws light on something". However, Berlin said, "I meant it as a kind of enjoyable intellectual game, but it was taken seriously. It was one of his most popular essays with the general public. The Hedgehog and the Fox is an essay by philosopher Isaiah Berlin that was published as a book in 1953.
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