We understand nature by resisting it.
GASTON BACHELARDFor in the end, the irreality function functions as well in the face of man as in the face of the cosmos. What would we know of others if we did not imagine things?
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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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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He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
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Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison.
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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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Words are clamor-filled shells. There’s many a story in the miniature of a single word!
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It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.
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So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.
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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 metaphor is – an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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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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To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
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We must listen to poets.
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Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.
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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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