Quotes by Bernard Berenson

• A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.
• When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
• Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.
• Miracles happen to those who believe in them.
• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
• Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
• From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy.
• Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
• Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
• You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.
• Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.