Top 50 Jose Bergamin Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.”

— Jose Bergamin

2. “To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

4. “What is reasoned has nothing to do with what is reasonable.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

6. “Erik Satie does not say the opposite of Debussy; he says the same thing only the other way round.”

— Jose Bergamin

7. “You can say the opposite of something you’ve said but you can’t do the opposite of something you’ve done.”

— Jose Bergamin

8. “A woman who does not become the slave of just one man becomes the slave of all men.”

— Jose Bergamin

9. “True art tries not to attract attention in order to be noticed.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

11. “The quality of a man’s mind can generally be judged by the size of his wastepaper basket.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

15. “Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing.”

— Jose Bergamin

16. “Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.”

— Jose Bergamin

17. “Who learns most from a good book is the author.”

— Jose Bergamin

18. “Happiness is always a coincidence.”

— Jose Bergamin

19. “You can hesitate before deciding, but not once the decision is made.”

— Jose Bergamin

20. “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

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

23. “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

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

26. “The only time a man thinks is when he’s alone.”

— Jose Bergamin

27. “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

28. “Even if you’re not going anywhere, don’t get in the way.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

30. “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

31. “All true tradition usually appears revolutionary.”

— Jose Bergamin

32. “A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.”

— Jose Bergamin

33. “Art is good but it isn’t the best.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

36. “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

37. “You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

41. “The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.”

— Jose Bergamin

42. “A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.”

— Jose Bergamin

43. “Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.”

— Jose Bergamin

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

— Jose Bergamin

45. “When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.”

— Jose Bergamin

46. “I fear only that which I love, says man, according to Montaigne. Woman replies: I love only that which I fear.”

— Jose Bergamin

47. “It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.”

— Jose Bergamin

48. “Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?”

— Jose Bergamin

49. “Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.”

— Jose Bergamin

50. “Theology is the logic of the Devil.”

— Jose Bergamin