We must listen to poets.
GASTON BACHELARDThe characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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To 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.
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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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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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One must always maintain one’s connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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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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One must live to build one’s house, and not build one’s house to live in.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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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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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.
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