A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition.
— Jose Bergamin
The most craziest Jose Bergamin quotes that will inspire your inner self
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.
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.
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward.
The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
Happiness is always a coincidence.
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
There are no good or bad habits. All habits are, by definition, bad.
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
Art is good but it isn't the best.
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears.
A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.
When the English have scored a goal, they think nothing more remains to be done.
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.
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
Try not to turn your life into a race, least of all an obstacle race.
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
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!
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
The man who spends all his time looking up to heaven is not always the best;
in fact, he is usually the worst.
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne.
Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
Skepticism is provisional, even if it lasts a lifetime.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.