Words matter. These are the best Jose Bergamin Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best; in fact, he is usually the worst.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
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?
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
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.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
The quality of a man’s mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
