Bernard Berenson Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Bernard Berenson:

The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#426ac248

From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#742a6494

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#31aba699

I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#0d60d356

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#f38c5f53

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#708e4ca3

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
~Bernard Berenson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#6a01ea4c

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#5d47ba65

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
~Bernard Berenson


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#7eff24c2

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
~Bernard Berenson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#021096f9

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
~Bernard Berenson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#29324cc6

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.
~Bernard Berenson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#90c5ef52

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.
~Bernard Berenson


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/bernard-berenson-quotes/#b2364099

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