"To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom." ― Jose Bergamin Topic(s): Wisdom More From 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." "The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair." "Happiness is always a coincidence." More In Wisdom "One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers."― Wilfrid Sheed "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."― Archimedes "Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense."― Henry Miller