One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
GASTON BACHELARDWe understand nature by resisting it.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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An excess of childhood is the germ of a poem.
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Daydream transports the dreamer outside the immediate world to a world that bears the mark of infinity.
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Instead of looking for the dream in reverie, people should look for reverie in the dream. There are calm beaches in the midst of nightmares.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.
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