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 BERENSONAs I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
More Bernard Berenson Quotes
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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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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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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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The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far from it. It would be unconvivial and dull to stop and arrest the flow of talk, and speak only after carefully considering whether I was telling the truth.
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Not what man knows but what man feels, concerns art. All else is science.
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German is of stone, limestone, pudding stone, marble, granite even, and so to a considerable degree is English, whereas French is bronze and gives out a metallic resonance with tones that neither German nor English tolerate.
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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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You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
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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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One can repent even of having repented.
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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached.
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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