Jose Bergamin famous quotes

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

#Doubt #Atheism #Superstitions

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

#Confused #Pride #Men

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Failing #Be Prepared #Ready

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Doe #May #Revolution

Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
-- Jose Bergamin

#Mean #Needs #Tradition

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

#Hope #Despair #Age

What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Reason

I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Love #Fear #Women

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

#God #Ironic #Religion

A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Thoughtful #Thinking

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Thoughtful #Thinking #Observation

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

#Life #Thoughtful #Thinking

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

#Music #Eye #Over You

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!
-- Jose Bergamin

#Music #Car #Lovely

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

#Easy

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

#Dance #Daughter #Mother

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

#Sports #Thinking #Goal

All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Revolutionary #Tradition

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

#Love #Strong #Weak

You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
-- Jose Bergamin

#God #Enemy #Lovers

Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Music #Musician

A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Men #Doe #Slave

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

#Forgiveness #Punishment #Sin

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

#Poetry #Despair #Born

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

#Definitions #Habit #Bad Habits

Happiness is always a coincidence.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Destiny #Coincidence

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

#Advice #Pieces #Threat

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Love #Love Is #Sin

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

#Men #Thinking

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

#Adventure #Half #Life Is

You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Decision #Made

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...
-- Jose Bergamin

#Country #War #Adventure

Theology is the logic of the Devil.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Devil #Logic #Theology

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

#Civilization #Different #Weight

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
-- Jose Bergamin

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

#Dance #Rhythm

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

#Meals #Literature

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Solidarity #Solitary

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

#Mistake #Men #Answers

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Littles #Succeed #Failing

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

#Water #Perfection #Sensual

True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Art #Order #Trying

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Ignorance #Innocence #Forgotten

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Way

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Spiritual #Drinking #Damage

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
-- Jose Bergamin

#Order #Agree

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

#Art #Effort #Results

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

#Men #Drunk #Coward

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

#Noise #Firsts #Music Is

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

#Sin #Poet #Thinker

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

#Race #Trying #Obstacles

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
-- Jose Bergamin

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

#Animal #Intelligent #Different

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

#Wisdom #Light #Devil

Who learns most from a good book is the author.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Book #Good Book

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

#Men #Heaven #Facts

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

#Opposites #Done #Said

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

#Believe #Let It Go #Ears

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Matter #Interest

Art is good but it isn't the best.
-- Jose Bergamin

#Art #Art Is

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

#Ignorance #Catholic #Christ