Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson More Quotes by Bernard Berenson More Quotes From Bernard Berenson Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Bernard Berenson optimistic positive believe There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them. Bernard Berenson fate destiny men Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity. Bernard Berenson literature humanity writing Art, in the widest sense of the word, is the instrument Hellenism has used and would use for that purpose. All the arts, poetry, music, ritual, the visual arts, the theatre, must work singly and together to create the most comprehensive art of all, a humanized society, and its masterpiece, the free man. Bernard Berenson together men art It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with their fragrance. The temperature was like a caress. I remember - I need not recall - that I climbed up a tree stump and felt suddenly immersed in Itness. I did not call it by that name. I had no need for words. It and I were one. Bernard Berenson air summer morning 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 aging self may I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. Bernard Berenson carpe-diem time hands 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 Berenson affair people way Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her. Bernard Berenson prayer fear believe 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 childhood fatherhood dream The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself. Bernard Berenson justification helping art Art is mind and heart and touch as much and more than it is mere instrument, technique - without which however it cannot exist at all. Bernard Berenson technique mind art Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. Bernard Berenson cry despair hope You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. Bernard Berenson parody doe fun 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. Bernard Berenson humble happiness jobs When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase. Bernard Berenson appreciate appreciation beauty Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training. Bernard Berenson reactions training genius I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters. Bernard Berenson wine tea way Taste begins when appetite is satisfied. Bernard Berenson appetite satisfied taste Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second. Bernard Berenson comparison truth history
