The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing… And just how could adults show us the world they have lost! They know; they think they know; they say they know.
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Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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Love is never finished expressing itself, and it expresses itself better the more poetically it is dreamed.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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A book is always an emergence above everyday life. A book is expressed life and thus is an addition to life.
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Through imagination, thanks to the subtleties of the irreality function, we re-enter the world of confidence, the world of the confident being, which is the proper world for reverie.
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Why should the actions of the imagination not be as real as those of perception?
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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A clear conscience is, for me, an occupied conscience-never empty-the conscience of a man at work until his last breath.
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The blank page gives us the right to dream.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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