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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- 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.

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson

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

- Bernard Berenson