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I am only a picture-taster, the way others are wine-or tea-tasters.


Bernard Berenson

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SAINT BERNARD God removes the sin of the one who makes humble confession, and thereby the devil loses the sovereig...
SAINT BERNARD We seek for truth in ourselves; in our neighbours, and in its essential nature. We find it first in ...
SAINT BERNARD I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind.
SAINT BERNARD What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contem...
BERNARD LEVIN Because tobacco is responsible for an impressive one-third of cancers, prevention efforts naturally ...
BERNARD LEVIN The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its likin...
BERNARD BECKETT People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the par...
BERNARD WILLIAMS The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Virtually the only subject in which one could ever get a scholarship to Oxford or Cambridge was clas...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.
BERNARD WILLIAMS I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put o...
BERNARD WILLIAMS People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by ...
BERNARD WILLIAMS A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
BERNARD WILLIAMS If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's t...
BERNARD WILLIAMS What a strange world this would be if we all had the same sense of humor.
BERNARD WILLIAMS A half-truth is usually less than half of that.
BERNARD WILLIAMS 'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
BERNARD WILLIAMS An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Women have a favorite room, men a favorite chair.
BERNARD WILLIAMS The people I really do dislike are the morally unimaginative kind of evolutionary reductionists who,...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive f...
BERNARD WILLIAMS We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
BERNARD WILLIAMS Life is supposed to be a series of peaks and valleys. The secret is to keep the valleys from becomin...
BERNARD WILLIAMS Look, have whatever in your collection at home, but everybody needs a little Friday night. And reall...
BERNARD EDWARDS Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to t...
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