Jose Bergamin Quotes
"The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Sin)
"The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Despair, Disillusionment)
"Theology is the logic of the Devil."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Devil, Logic, Theology)
"There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Habits)
"There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Dance)
"To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Success)
"To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Perfection, Sensuality, Water)
"To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Wisdom, God, Devil, Light)
"To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Forgiveness, Punishment, Repentance, Sin)
"True solidarity is only possible among the solitary."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Solidarity)
"We say of an animal that it is intelligent, and we say the same thing of a woman; but in neither case is it usually appropriate, clearly for very different reasons."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Woman)
"When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Time, Fear, Nothing)
"Who learns most from a good book is the author."
- Jose Bergamin
"You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Decision)
"You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done."
- Jose Bergamin
"An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Christ, Ignorance)
"The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Time, Fact, Heaven, Man)
"True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Art, Attention, Order)
"Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Art, Effort, Result)
"The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Being, Man)
"A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Intelligence, Civilization, Weight)
"A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Advice)
"A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo."
- Jose Bergamin
"A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Men, Man, Woman)
"Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?"
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Order, Talk)
"A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Belief, Doubt, Superstition)
"Happiness is always a coincidence."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Happiness)
"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Music)
"In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Literature)
"It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Crime, Revolution, May)
"Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Women, Mistake, Answers, Being, Man, Question, Today, Woman)
"Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter."
- Jose Bergamin
"Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Dignity, Man, Pride, Self, Woman)
"Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Love, Sensuality, Sin)
"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
- Jose Bergamin
(Related: Music, First)
"Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go."
- Jose Bergamin