Quotes from Jose Bergamin

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

Take care that your philosophy does not outpace your thought.

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

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

Those who try to understand life, which, by definition, cannot be understood, are those who do not understand poetry, which is, in short, the only thing that can be understood.

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

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

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

The spring thinks, the stream runs.

Ignorance is learned; innocence is forgotten.

Courage waits; fear will seek.

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

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

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

Happiness is always a coincidence.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness not to sin offers only punishment.

The novel is born of disillusionment the poem, of despair.

A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

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

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

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

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

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.