International affairs will be placed on a better footing when it is understood that there is no way of punishing a people for the crimes of its rulers.
BERNARD BERENSONA complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
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From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament… the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: “Too bad we can’t get together more often”.
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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Government is the art of the momentary feasible, of the least bad attainable, and not of the rationally most desirable.
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Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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It makes me happy to encounter goodness, love of work, humane intelligence, and people no matter at what kind of job, be it ever so humble, or ever so exalted, who do it well and con amore.
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Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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I wonder whether art has a higher function than to make me feel, appreciate, and enjoy natural objects for their art value?
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it.
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How can I regain even for a minute the feeling of ample leisure I had during my early, my creative years? Then I seldom felt fussed, or hurried.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
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Who will free me from hurry, flurry, the feeling of a crowd pushing behind me, of being hustled and crushed?
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man’s reason has never learnt to separate them.
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Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?
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