All knowledge is in response to a question. If there were no question, there would be no scientific knowledge. Nothing proceeds from itself.
GASTON BACHELARDTo disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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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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To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.
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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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The cleverer I am at miniaturizing the world, the better I possess it.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.
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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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Childhood lasts all through life.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak… It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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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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