Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
GASTON BACHELARDOne must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.
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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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Our house is our corner of the world.
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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Cosmic reveries separate us from project reveries. They situate us in a world and not in a society. The cosmic reverie possesses a sort of stability or tranquility. It helps us escape time. It is a state.
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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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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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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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