55 Quotes by Bernard Berenson

A complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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