He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDWe are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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Poetry is one of the destinies of speech… One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.
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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 live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.
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The past of the soul is so distant! The soul does not live on the edge of time. It finds its rest in the universe imagined by reverie.
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For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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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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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The great function of poetry is to give back to us the situations of our dreams.
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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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