"There are two futures, the future of desire……" — Bernard Berenson
"There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."
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Bernard Berenson
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32 Quotes by Bernard Berenson
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired…
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or…
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Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
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Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.
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Government lasts as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.
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Literature in its most comprehensive sense is the autobiography of humanity.
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I walk in the garden, I look at the flowers and shrubs and trees and discover in them an exquisiteness…
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A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self…
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Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.
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Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for…
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More Desire Quotes
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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
— Hannah Arendt
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
— Aristotle
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
— Aristotle
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
— Aristotle
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
— Richard Bach
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
— Neil Armstrong
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
— Chinua Achebe
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
— Saint Augustine
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
— Saint Augustine
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