He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
GASTON BACHELARDA book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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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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The reflected world is the conquest of calm.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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Man is an imagining being.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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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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There is no original truth, only original error.
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The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.
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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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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 only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.
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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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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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The reveries of two solitary souls prepare the sweetness of loving.
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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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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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If we did not have a feminine being within us, how would we rest ourselves?
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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