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

- Jose Bergamin

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin

A reformer knows neither how to do nor to undo.

- Jose Bergamin

Art is good but it isn't the best.

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin

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.

- 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

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

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

- Jose Bergamin

Do we have to talk in order to agree or agree in order to talk?

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin

To be ready to fail is to be prepared for success.

- 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

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

- Jose Bergamin

Who learns most from a good book is the author.

- Jose Bergamin

Only one thing has to matter for everything to matter.

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin

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

- Jose Bergamin