Best 48 quotes of Jose Bergamin on MyQuotes

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.

An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.

A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.

There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer.

Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.

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.

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.

When I listen to the engine of my car, I might say it sounds fine, but it would not occur to me to say "What lovely music!

When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.

When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)