Jose Bergamin Quotes
Collection of top 61 famous quotes about Jose Bergamin
Jose Bergamin Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Jose Bergamin quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.
— Jose Bergamin
In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
— Jose Bergamin
In love, it is the weak who strike and the strong who caress.
— Jose Bergamin
Who learns most from a good book is the author.
— Jose Bergamin
The quality of a man's mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.
— Jose Bergamin
A rocket is a reed that thinks brilliantly.
— Jose Bergamin
The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.
— Jose Bergamin
Happiness is always a coincidence.
— Jose Bergamin
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
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
Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.
— Jose Bergamin
You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.
— 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
All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.
— Jose Bergamin
Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.
— Jose Bergamin
If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.
— Jose Bergamin
A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.
— Jose Bergamin
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
I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.
— Jose Bergamin
True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.
— Jose Bergamin
The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.
— Jose Bergamin
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
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.
— Jose Bergamin
A belief which leaves no place for doubt is not a belief; it is a superstition. -Jose Bergamin, author (1895-1983)
— Jose Bergamin
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
— Jose Bergamin
Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?
— Jose Bergamin
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.
— Jose Bergamin
Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.
— Jose Bergamin
You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.
— Jose Bergamin
Theology is the logic of the Devil.
— Jose Bergamin
Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.
— Jose Bergamin
Art is good but it isn't the best.
— Jose Bergamin
The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.
— Jose Bergamin
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
— Jose Bergamin
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's.
— Jose Bergamin
Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.
— Jose Bergamin
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.
— Jose Bergamin
Those who are scandalized by a naked bodythinks the Devil
are easy prey: they are already doomed. — Jose Bergamin
It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.
— Jose Bergamin
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
— Jose Bergamin
Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.
— Jose Bergamin
To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.
— Jose Bergamin
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.
— Jose Bergamin
Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing
— Jose Bergamin
Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.
— Jose Bergamin
An ignorance of Marx is as frequent among Marxists as an ignorance of Christ is among Catholics.
— Jose Bergamin
