He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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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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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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The metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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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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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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Our whole childhood remains to be reimagined. In reimagining it, we have the possibility of recovering it in the very life of our reveries as a solitary child.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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